Comment on WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran

• WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean recently… Obviously.

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨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.

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    • blueduck@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨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 

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    • dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨22⁩ ⁨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.

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      • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        for sure. they are so much worse. trump was born in 1946. his parents were “around” for the first bombs. i’m trying to say it was not long ago. Heck I’m 46. A lot has happened in 46 years. But my dob is closer to the US nuking two cities to try and scare russia than it is to my age now…

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