The USA, the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb, has a population that has disturbingly not reckoned with this history. From a recent study into USA attit

The USA, the only country to ever use a nuclear bomb, has a population that has disturbingly not reckoned with this history. From a recent study into USA attitudes to the usage of nuclear weapons in warfare: > Sagan noted, “The most shocking finding of our study is that 60 percent of Americans would approve of killing 2 million Iranian civilians to prevent an invasion of Iran that might kill 20,000 U. S. soldiers. ” I think it's pretty hard to overstate how concerning that study result is. The nuclear bombing of Japan killed 120,000 people. Here, 60% say they'd approve of killing 2,000,000 _civilians_ to save 20,000 U.S combatants. I'd hazard a guess that more Americans are proud of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki than are ashamed of it. To not reckon with the horror and the pain of those bombing is to be open to doing the same and worse in the future. With Fascism whipping up in the USA, that survey result becomes even more ominous. 1. https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/08/americans-weigh-nuclear-war/ https://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/08/americans-weigh-nuclear...