Fox News reports that Donald Trump may consider using nuclear weapons to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility

The U.S. military has reservations regarding the success of using a bunker-buster bomb, a non nuclear weapon, to eliminate Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility, buried deep in a mountain. Two defense officials were reportedly briefed that only a tactical nuclear weapon could reach the facility.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Trump really wants to do a nuke on something. That would secure some kind of place for him in history, I’m sure.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Bombing Japan is a big dark spot on our history. As was our treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII. Basically everyone agrees on that.

      We retconned history to say dropping the big bombs would have averted many more casualties, and maybe that’s true, but really a.) who knows and b.) big difference between civilian casualties and military casualties.

      • Grimy@lemmy.world
        133·
        1 day ago

        Definitely a war crime. It also most likely brought about anime which is objectively worse.

      • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        MAGAts don’t feel remorse for what we did to Japan. I used to work with one who used the interment camps to justify migrants being separated from their children and thrown in cages. His logic was that “people weren’t up in arms about it then, why do they care about it now?”

      • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
        31·
        1 day ago

        conservatives see nuking Japanese civilians with pride.

        they lack any form of empathy.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        The people who vote for trump think that the bomb was just a great technological achievement, and never learned about the Japanese internment camps.