We are going to do this the way the Republicans do it...

[NNadir]

14. I have struggled my whole adult life to understand the ethics of...

...the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At different times I've been on different sides of the question.

As the end of my life approaches, having studied the literature on the Japanese internal debate on surrender, I am inclined to agree with your father.

As an advocate of nuclear energy, regarding it as the only acceptable form of energy, I have made it a point to understand nuclear weapons, which I generally oppose, but one could argue that their existence may have brought a sobering restraint on the outbreak of another World War, leaving it a "cold" war.

These questions do not yield easily to simplistic reasoning. It is disturbing that large nuclear arsenals are controlled by men lacking ethics and in the case of the orange creature in the White House, an already low level of intellect further compromised by clear dementia.