Perhaps a little late now that they have painted Russia into a corner, the United States and its allies are worried that president Vladimir Putin might resort to his nuclear arsenal to retaliate against sanctions and US military aid to Ukraine. But only one country has ever been insane enough to use nuclear weapons, not once but twice, each time against civilian targets on purpose. American scientists wanted to test the effect of the atomic bomb on a civilian city without any military infrastructure.
What Kind of Maniacs Would Use Nuclear Weapons?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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The 70 largest cities in Japan were already reduced to ruble so the US needed cities that were of no military value, and so had not been bombed during the war, because merely bouncing ruble would not be a good test of Atomic Bomb efficacy.
The US needs of crowd control demand such behavior by the US be censored, without which propaganda against the enemy du jour wouldn’t be effective.