the US has used them before…
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WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 21 hours agoI’m honestly surprised the threat of such hasn’t come up before this.
flandish@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I mean recently… Obviously.
flandish@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
stop thinking like that. ww2 was recent; there are folks still alive suffering from it. on a “national age scale” 80 years is nothing.
the US pivoted so hard to make the war make a lot of profit for a lot of people / businesses who are still operating today. it was a capitalist dream, here in the states.
blueduck@piefed.social 18 hours ago
This provoked an interesting question for me…What is the median age of a United Nations member state?
Short answer is \~64 years old. That aligns to post-WWII decolonization efforts in Africa, with another spike in the 80s/90s as the Soviet Union broke up
dalekcaan@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
It is a long time ago in terms of how long nuclear weapons have been around, to be fair. The weapons we have today are not like the ones dropped on Japan.
sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
I think it has and we just haven’t heard about it.