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...until it doesn't. I would highly recommend a visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum if you'd like a different perspective on nuclear weapons, rather than a
by titzer 6y ago
...until it doesn't. I would highly recommend a visit to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum if you'd like a different perspective on nuclear weapons, rather than a American/western one.
And...man, I wish we had that $5.5 trillion back [https://www.brookings.edu/the-hidden-costs-of-our-nuclear-arsenal-overview-of-project-findings/ https://www.brookings.edu/the-hidden-costs-of-our-nuclear-ar...].
- ethbr0 6y agoSee also: Guernica, Warsaw, Dresden, London, Wesel, Tokyo, Hargeisa. Nuclear weapons are bigger explosives. Not different explosives.
- titzer 6y agoEvery one of those cities was bombed for weeks, sometimes months. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were single bombs. They cause massive radiation exposure and fallout. Tens of thousands of people were poisoned to death in the aftermath of the Japanese bombings. You haven't seen the suffering of those people and cannot even imagine the hell they were subjected to. And today, we have weapons hundreds of times as powerful. City-ending megaweapons by the thousands. And yes, nuclear winter is a real thing too; we could very seriously impact the global climate and cause mass extinctions in a couple of hours. A nuclear war is a planet-scale atrocity that will ends billions of human lives. I've been to the Hiroshima museum. Like I said, it will change your perspective. I'm not really all that inclined to continue this interchange given your flippance.
- ethbr0 6y agoIf you want to dismiss 100,000 Tokyo citizens burning to death in two nights because it doesn't fit the narrative of "nuclear is the worst," then that's your decision. But personally, I consider them equally horrific. And as stated previously, if MAD prevents either from happening, the risk seems worth it.
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