re: #267 EPR-radar

In hindsight, I think it is certain that nuclear weapons would have been used in war. There is simply no way that something like that could be developed and then never used in war.

Given that, a limited use of nukes at the tail end of world war II is better than most other scenarios, such as massive use of nukes at the start of a new world war.

I recently watch The World At War series (I hadn’t seen it since it’s first run on TV), and was kind of surprised to hear that the men who made the decision to use nukes on Japan didn’t know anything about radiation poisoning. Maybe that’s a CYA excuse after the fact, but nukes were a brand new weapon at the time that we really knew very little about.