Interesting short piece written by Orwell just after the US nuked Japan (but prior to writing 1984). http://orwell.ru/library/articles/ABomb/english/e_abomb "Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."