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> Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons it has not seen fit to use them. Uhhh, did the au

> Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons it has not seen fit to use them. Uhhh, did the author forget about 1945?

masteryupa_ 10y ago
Apologies for the miss-type, the error has been corrected: "Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons, outside the two instances in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it has not seen fit to use them."
- DHMO 10y ago
  And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_... And others have also set off the bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests Granted, weapons testing is a little different than intentional use in war against an enemy.
  - pluma 10y ago
    "a little"
    - duncan_bayne 10y ago
      Not as little a difference as you might hope, in the case of atmospheric testing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_At...
- SilasX 10y ago
  "Other than the death of her husband, Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed the play."
  - madgar 10y ago
    Yeah because avoiding nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was a walk in the park and definitely not worth highlighting /s
ubernostrum 10y ago
Looks like it's been corrected, but there are people who try to exclude the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings due to the significant difference between those weapons (usually calling them "atomic bombs") and the later classes of boosted-fission and finally fission-fusion thermonuclear devices ("hydrogen bombs") which formed the bulk of the Cold War nuclear arsenal on both sides. Not saying it's correct to try to sweep the WWII bombings under the rug that way, but it is a thing I've seen people try to do.

> Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons it has not seen fit to use them. Uhhh, did the author forget about 1945?

masteryupa_ 10y ago

Apologies for the miss-type, the error has been corrected: "Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons, outside the two instances in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it has not seen fit to use them."

DHMO 10y ago
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_... And others have also set off the bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests Granted, weapons testing is a little different than intentional use in war against an enemy.
- pluma 10y ago
  "a little"
  - duncan_bayne 10y ago
    Not as little a difference as you might hope, in the case of atmospheric testing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_At...
SilasX 10y ago
"Other than the death of her husband, Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed the play."
- madgar 10y ago
  Yeah because avoiding nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was a walk in the park and definitely not worth highlighting /s

ubernostrum 10y ago

Looks like it's been corrected, but there are people who try to exclude the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings due to the significant difference between those weapons (usually calling them "atomic bombs") and the later classes of boosted-fission and finally fission-fusion thermonuclear devices ("hydrogen bombs") which formed the bulk of the Cold War nuclear arsenal on both sides. Not saying it's correct to try to sweep the WWII bombings under the rug that way, but it is a thing I've seen people try to do.