As many people are beginning to realize but would rather not think about,
the United States and Russia are moving perilously close to nuclear war.
Russian President Putin has now openly pledged to defend Russian territory
with “all the forces and means at our disposal.” U.S. President Biden has
responded that Russia will suffer “catastrophic consequences” if it resorts to
the use of nuclear weapons.
As Putin has correctly pointed out, it is the U.S. government that has established
the precedent for the wartime use of nuclear weapons. That, of course, was the
U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World
War II.
Let’s review the justification that U.S. officials cite for targeting those two cities
with nuclear bombs.
