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Yes Japan was awful during WW II. That's why the US dropped the bomb. The thing to remember is, (1) how devastating nuclear weapons can be (2) how close the
by studentrob 10y ago
Yes Japan was awful during WW II. That's why the US dropped the bomb.
The thing to remember is,
(1) how devastating nuclear weapons can be
(2) how close the world came to a much larger nuclear holocaust during the cold war period
(3) that it's possible for us to forget the past and re-enter such a period
(4) that today's nuclear weapons are 1,000x more powerful than the ones that leveled two Japanese cities [1]
(5) only nine countries have these weapons, and
(6) that it only takes one bad actor to start a worldwide nuclear war
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield#Examples_of_nuclear_weapon_yields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_yield#Examples_...