Have never been able to figure how killing civilians with an atomic bomb was somehow more reprehensible that fire bombing them to death.
I go back and forth on this one, especially “why was Hiroshima worse than Tokyo, or Dresden?”
I think it’s the idea of a single weapon, a “push of the button”, erasing so many people at once, reproducing (now) the mechanism that powers the sun, that’s so creepy.
I was 11 when the USSR detonated their “100 megaton bomb” (actually about 58). My family lived in a wood frame split level 25 miles from the Empire State building, the next day the front page of the NY Times had a map with the Empire State Building as ground zero for a Tsar Bomba, and we were all inside the 100% fatality circle they drew on the map.
Most days, I accept the necessity of the atomic bombings. But not every day.
Well, they’re the same crowd who defend the rights of so-called ‘palestinians’ over Israel.
So I think that it falls under that ‘mental disorder’ banner.