Nuclear war would 'end civilization' with famine: study

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Both.

I view most of the acts on both sides of WWII as a complete suspension of civilization. Not just Fat Man and Little Boy. The deliberate targeting of cities/civilians by both sides, MAXIMUM EFFORT, mass exterminations in Europe/East Europe, and around the SE Pacific, you name it.

Brawls don't get much dirtier than that one, short of terminating our entire species. We've recovered a bit, but you still see echoes of it every time there's a 'minor' regional skirmish. When people passively accept things like our plan for SHOCK AND AWE in Iraq. (Rapid Dominance military doctrine, adopted by the US military, known in WWII as blitzkrieg) To intentionally destroy "means of communication, transportation, food production, water supply, and other aspects of infrastructure" inherently requires targeting civilians, even while the other side of the SecDef's mouth is claiming to seek to avoid civilian casualties.

We've gotten better, but that thin veneer of civilization is always easy to strip away, if someone 'gets out of line' and we need to apply 'overwhelming force' to 'end the conflict quickly'.

Not much more than a thin veneer. And we see where that got us in Iraq...