[ianunruh]

> Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons it has not seen fit to use them.

Uhhh, did the author forget about 1945?

[ubernostrum]

Looks like it's been corrected, but there are people who try to exclude the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings due to the significant difference between those weapons (usually calling them "atomic bombs") and the later classes of boosted-fission and finally fission-fusion thermonuclear devices ("hydrogen bombs") which formed the bulk of the Cold War nuclear arsenal on both sides.

Not saying it's correct to try to sweep the WWII bombings under the rug that way, but it is a thing I've seen people try to do.

[masteryupa_]

Apologies for the miss-type, the error has been corrected:

"Firstly, it is important to recall that in the entire span since the United States acquired nuclear weapons, outside the two instances in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it has not seen fit to use them."

[SilasX]

"Other than the death of her husband, Mrs. Lincoln enjoyed the play."

[madgar]

Yeah because avoiding nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was a walk in the park and definitely not worth highlighting /s

[DHMO]

And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests_...

And others have also set off the bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests

Granted, weapons testing is a little different than intentional use in war against an enemy.

[pluma]

"a little"

[duncan_bayne]

Not as little a difference as you might hope, in the case of atmospheric testing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_At...