[10xDev]

It is Israel pushing for this.

"we’re hearing from strategists in Netanyahu’s party, talking about the use of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki models. We’re hearing from the PM and from his defence minister about crushing Iran, about decisively decimating the country, about having a hit list of the power grid in Iran that is just waiting for the go-ahead from the US president."

[jfengel]

I really hope that they are not taking Hiroshima and Nagasaki as models. Those were part of a very different conflict at a very different time. A similar approach would produce very different results.

If they simply mean "nuclear bombs" they'll have to come up with a very different justification and strategy than the US used 80 years ago. If it's just "it worked then so it'll work now", then things are going to go very, very, very badly.