Atomic Nerds

On this date, a good many good people died and heralded the beginning of a whole hell of a lot more Americans dying for various causes that just about everybody agreed were a good idea after a sufficient number of years had passed. At the time, usually not so much, something that we tend to forget easily whenever comparing our current overseas adventures to the one we supposedly all agreed on.

As always it is a good idea to take lessons from past tragedies. In this one, we can learn that crazily ambitious imperialists with no natural resources of their own have interesting to reactions to resource embargoes, and that it is a very bad idea in the long run to drop flaming objects on massive industrial powers with otherwise isolationist inclinations that have a cultural tradition of taking such things extremely personally. It may lead to being the testing ground for science projects and having Americans camped in your back yard for the next seventy years.

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