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NNadir

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2. As a person who has focused on nuclear issues for decades...

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 09:57 AM

Apr 1

...I'm wholly unsurprised by the use of nuclear scare stories to start fossil fuel wars.

Interestingly, the only nuclear war ever observed, which took place eight decades ago, started as a result of fossil fuel access issues, specifically when Japan decided to attack what is now Indonesia in response to the US embargo on oil exports.

Pearl Harbor was designed to protect the flanks against a US response.

It is a profound aspect of mass psychological hysteria to focus on nuclear weapons issues, which have a spectacular record of not killing anyone over half a century while ignoring fossil fuel weapons of mass destruction, which never stop, functionally, killing people.

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