How Is The Atomic Bomb Used Today?

Atomic bombs were first used as weapons of mass destruction during the World War II when the US bombed the dropped on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then nuclear weapons have been exploded over two thousand instances for experimenting and exhibition purposes.
Apart from their use as arms, atomic bombs have been experimented and utilised for sundry civil purposes. These are primarily carried out through a process known as peaceful nuclear explosions. These are detonations carried out for non-military purposes. The purposes mostly relate to areas of economic progression. These explosions were used in large scale to construct dams and canals.
The United States as well as the erstwhile Soviet Union carried out a number of such explosions in the 1960s and 1970s. These were however put to an end by the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty of 1976.

The atomic bomb and weapons of mass destruction are used today as a deterrent. The idea is that if a country's government believes that you are likely to retaliate with atomic weaponry, they will not attack you with atomic weapons first. A strange line of thought, which has worked so far, but may be brought to an abrupt end when one considers that there are now people in the world for whom death has no meaning, and the destruction of a people even less.

Bombs are bombs. Throw them and you go poof.

They kill people