No chronicle of the century has ever come so close to the true spirit of the age. In1939 - Total WAR : no one was spared in World War II. It more civillians died than soldiers - - 1945 - Fall out : A nuclear explusion ended the war but as the dangers of radiation and accidents became clear, optimism turned into apprehension, scientists, survivors and protesters give their first hand accounts of the nuclear age- - 1949 - Brave new world : witnesses recall how post-war euphoris gave way to the mutual distrust of the new world superpowers.