Added to this, advances in the technology of warfare fed into the development of increasingly powerful weapons that perpetuated tensions between global powers, changing the way people lived in fundamental ways. Wartime medical advances also became available to the civilian population, leading to a healthier and longer-lived society. Technologies developed during World War II for the purpose of winning the war found new uses as commercial products became mainstays of the American home in the decades that followed the war’s end. Of the enduring legacies from a war that changed all aspects of life-from economics, to justice, to the nature of warfare itself-the scientific and technological legacies of World War II had a profound and permanent effect on life after 1945.
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