Comment on WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 21 hours agoI mean recently… Obviously.
Comment on WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 21 hours agoI 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.
flandish@lemmy.world 20 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…