@lutzray@bojacobs@histodons where they detail the reasons why the US actually thinks it can carry out a nuclear strike on Russia without fear of retaliation: The US THINKS it has sufficiently weakened Russia's ability to respond!
That's the dangerous situation we are in - American hubris !!
Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the plane that carried out the nuclear attack on Hiroshima 78 years ago this morning, named the plane that carried the nuclear weapon after his mother.
Everywhere Oppenheimer's quoting of the Bhagavad Gita is presented as showing how deep and cool he was. An analysis of the quote and its implications in the Gita reveal something less cool.
As James Hijiya shows in his paper, "The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer," he shows how Oppenheimer's invocation of the quote was eerily similar to the "I was just following orders" of those who killed for another WW2 nation.
Some Japanese people will tell you secretly how they realise they deserved it, but the beardy gaijin and the somali English teacher recently had a SPATT about it
You try to get two glass beads (to the left in this photo), each with a tail so that when you get them in the holes for Hiroshima & #Nagasaki, the back end stands up like a mushroom cloud.
Mass murder triumphalism...for kids!
Photo of original item in my office here in #Hiroshima.
"Domesticating Hiroshima in America in the Early Cold War"
How Americans came to see The US as perhaps the "real" #Hiroshima during the early Cold War. Even in the 21st century describing the idea of a terrorist nuclear detonation in the US as an "American Hiroshima."