75 years ago today, the Trinity Test takes place in New Mexico

[NNadir]

5. And three days after that, the last atomic weapon was dropped as a weapon of war.

It's funny, of course, since oil wars and oil based weapons of mass destruction have destroyed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear wars, including the war that was the only nuclear war ever observed, the World War II oil war - and it was very much an oil war at least inasmuch it involved the Japanese and the Americans and the Germans and the Soviets.

Do we worry about oil based weapons of mass destruction? We don't. We build and use them happily, year after year after year, decade after decade, but we are willing to completely destroy the planetary atmosphere because we worry about nuclear wars that do not happen.

It would be an interesting and different world if we focused as much on what is happening rather than what could happen in our wild nightmares.