Now, let us assume for a moment, that this was indeed quite true.

How would you interpret the present day - the 21st century - to be if this was an acceptable historical fact?

Oh yes, and I am on my way to building nuclear warheads. You may imagine for a second the Napoleonic Wars taking place with atomic explosions. Not that Napoleon's ego was sufficient enough to be considered a large enough explosion.

 

Plasma swords and force fields.
:Awesome:

 

We do not have those yet? Then what were the odd objects I found at Toys 'R' Us as a small child?

 

Radioactive waste.

 

Thank you for reinstating memories of my parents refusing to give me radioactive waste for my sixth birthday. If you will excuse me, I shall go cry in the other room.

 

Oh how I love me some Civilization.

 

I love how games based around killing other countries are named after the word "Civilised".

 

Adolf Stalin.

Oh, how that made me chortle.