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The dominant power at the time was the Spanish Empire with the discovery of the New World, before being surpassed by the British Empire, which became the largest empire in Earth's history. After the First World War, Britain began to rapidly decline as a superpower and the United States rose to prominence. After [[World War II]] the two remaining superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, plunged themselves into the Cold War with the discovery of nuclear fission bombs and later thermonuclear fusion weapons. In the 1960's the Nuclear Age gave way to the Space Age, with the accomplishments of the superpowers being emulated by Europe, Japan, and eventually the rest of the world. Although the nuclear superpowers signed a treaty to limit their nuclear stockpiles (an event that would eventually lead to the the end of the Cold War), third world countries got their hands on nuclear technology which led to terrorism and escalated conflicts between other smaller nations such as Pakistan and India.