The USA is the only nation in the history of the
world to detonate nuclear weapons on a people at war.
Our thirty-third president, Harry S. Truman has the
distinction of being the only human being ever to order
the use of nuclear bombs in that manner. In the two
attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki one hundred thousand
Japanese civilians died instantly. Another two hundred
thousand suffered the horrific long term effects of our
two nuclear attacks.
While it is true that only President Truman, of all
world leaders to date, has actually ordered the
detonation of atomic bombs in population centers, we
should remember that since then presidents and premiers
from here to India have been stockpiling and threatening
the use of nuclear weapons. Just as an armed robber uses
a handgun to threaten and motivate his victim, our world
leaders have been using nuclear weapons on us for over
fifty years.
It's dangerous. And if that's not enough, they make
us pay for the damn things too.