What the hell were we thinking?

[XemaSab]

This is a video that starts slow, but around 3 minutes in… well. It shows every nuclear bomb explosion on the Earth from 1945 — the US test before the bombs dropped on Japan — to 1998, when India and Pakistan joined the madness.


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/21/what-the-hell-were-we-thinking/

[Skittles]

1. "were" ?

[EOTE]

2. Notice there are almost no nukes during Clinton's terms.

And the few that did go off were from France. I have a lot of faults with the Clinton administration, but I do think it will be remembered as a time of great peace for the most part.

[tom_paine]

3. Absolutely - peace and prosperity.

n/t

[bobbolink]

5. "Prosperity"? Tell that to the welfare mothers and children.

Then, tell us all what happened to those mothers and children, please.

[tom_paine]

6. That would fall under the faults of the Clinton Adminstration.

I suppose I should have elaborated that I agree with that part of the post, too.

I understand and even agree where you are coming from, bobbolink.

But the fact is that, for whatever reason and whatever those faults were, the Clinton period was a time of peace and prosperity for a majority of Americans, if not a sizeable majority.

I know you feel strongly, but we will have to agree to disagree on this one.

[bobbolink]

7. Yes, it depends on which side of the economic line you stand on.

For me, I care much more for those women and children than I do for the affluent, insensitive ones.

I care about the deaths and homelessness that were caused. And, yes, I know that is just me.

I give not one shit that you disagree. The morality is clear.

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[bobbolink]

10. Those mothers and children DESERVE that energy.... and MORE.

People were so happy with their own "prosperity" that there wasn't even any effort to track those women and children to find out exactly what *did* happen to them.

When I brought it up, all you did was defend *your* view.

Those women and children are much more important to me than your defense of your "view".

[dionysus]

14. why do you always lash out at people who are on your side? you do more harm to your own cause than

you will ever realize.

[metapunditedgy]

4. "We?" I'm pretty sure it's a small number of small-minded psychotics who decide

when most nuclear bombs are detonated. It's not like there's a vote on it or anything.

[dtexdem]

9. Originally, that we were in a race to develop an A-bomb before Germany did.

But then we had it, and used it to end the war in the Pacific. After that, the temptation to lord it over the world was just too much. So others developed theirs so they couldn't be dominated by us, but could dominate others.

New tech, old story. The question is whether the world can now weave a new story.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

11. Holy Mother of Gawd!

The human race is f'n insane.

[XemaSab]

12. .

:kick:

[anarch]

13. what did the American Southwest, the South Pacific, and Siberia ever do to anyone?

Whatever it was, it must have been pretty bad, because we've sure beat the hell out of all of them.