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In his briskly written and carefully researched book on Hollywood’s first response to the bombings, The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood – and America – Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, author Greg Mitchell observes that a recent poll of three thousand Americans by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the public-opinion organization YouGov found that more a third of those surveyed would favor a nuclear strike on North Korea if that nation tested a missile capable of reaching the United States, even if more than a million civilians would perish in such an attack.
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The 75th anniversary of what remains the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime – the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a means of forcing Japan to surrender and bringing World War II to a conclusion – arrived in August 2020, and it is still unclear what deep lessons the world has learned from the horrific attacks of August 1945 on cities more notable for their large civilian populations than for anything in the way of actual or potential military operations.