Earlier this year, our entire grade took a school trip to New York City. During this trip, we passed 270, Broadway. Although this meant absolutely nothing to a good portion of my classmates, I did know what this building used to be. It was the headquarters of the Manhattan Project, the first successful initiative to make an atomic bomb.

Seeing this building, I thought, "Wow, there are so may countries in the world right now who really do not like the U.S., what if one of them dropped an atomic bomb on us, right now?"

Of course, I know that this is highly unlikely, but at the same time, I couldn't help but think that I was in the largest city the U.S., and it would be a prime destination for an attack. It probably didn't help that the day before, we had visited the 9/11 memorial, but I can't help what I think about.