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WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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I'm honestly surprised the threat of such hasn't come up before this.
I think it has and we just haven’t heard about it.
the US has used them before…
I mean recently... Obviously.
stop thinking like that. ww2 was recent; there are folks still alive suffering from it. on a “national age scale” 80 years is nothing.
the US pivoted so hard to make the war make a lot of profit for a lot of people / businesses who are still operating today. it was a capitalist dream, here in the states.
This provoked an interesting question for me…What is the median age of a United Nations member state?
Short answer is ~64 years old. That aligns to post-WWII decolonization efforts in Africa, with another spike in the 80s/90s as the Soviet Union broke up
It is a long time ago in terms of how long nuclear weapons have been around, to be fair. The weapons we have today are not like the ones dropped on Japan.
for sure. they are so much worse. trump was born in 1946. his parents were “around” for the first bombs. i’m trying to say it was not long ago. Heck I’m 46. A lot has happened in 46 years. But my dob is closer to the US nuking two cities to try and scare russia than it is to my age now…