April 5, 2026 War has rules — everybody knows that! If you are defending against an unprovoked attack, the attacker has already violated the rules of war. If you are in the middle of peaceful negotiations at the time, they've already violated the rules twice. If you start your attack by bombing a school full of young girls... By torpedoing a ship known to be unarmed and full of musicians invited to an international affair, hit without warning and without rescuing survivors... If you double-tap that school you bombed... If you cause an environmental catastrophe by blowing up thousands of tons of oil reserves so it rains a toxic storm on a city of more than 10 million people... What are we at so far? Six violations of international law? Eight? Ten? The consequences will inevitably include retaliations over the coming decades. The anger of the survivors does not subside very quickly, even if the perpetrators are eventually brought to justice. When you refuse to sign onto the international land mine treaty, then drop land mines by aerial bombardment in residential areas... When you bomb medical centers, historic cultural sites, water desalination plants, sewage treatment facilities, and infrastructure including factories where medicines are produced... When you punish a population for the crimes of their leaders... There will be consequences. And if you bomb a nuclear power plant... What are the consequences? Because nuclear radiation spreads globally (as do the fumes from oil fires and other toxic attacks, including the use of depleted uranium bullets (shells) which is still uranium, just with a bit less of one isotope. There are many other toxic substances in many "normal" ("non-nuclear) bombs. What if you use a nuclear bomb to blow up a nuclear reactor? What are the consequences for the world? How many international rules of law would such an attack violate? What country, what MADMAN, is forcing humanity to face these questions, and maybe these consequences? Donald J. Trump, J. D. Vance, Pete Hegseth and Mike Johnson are all directly responsible for each of these events (all those events mentioned about except the last one has already happened). Who can stop them? What will the consequences be over the coming decades (long after those four — and myself and maybe you too — are gone)? 9-11, both its immediate destruction and the cancers and lung problems that followed, was a cat scratch compared to the after-effects of a nuclear attack on a nuclear facility: The cancers, deformities, "jelly babies" and other health problems, spread globally. Fair trials and proper punishments for the top-level perpetrators of crimes of this magnitude are very rare. Either the guilty leaders manage to stay in power, or they are hanged or beheaded by those who once admired them, angry when they finally realize they have been mislead. Sometimes the deposed leaders are executed in an effort to avoid a collective punishment that is expected in retaliation for war crimes the leaders convinced others to commit. (The leaders seldom do the crimes themselves.) Is it an endless cycle? For thousands of years, it has been. Whether it can continue in the age of nuclear weapons remains to be seen. With the exceptions of the original bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons have only been threatened, and even then, nearly always ONLY threatened as a retaliatory measure against another nuclear attack. But here we are, today, wondering not so much IF, but WHEN, Donald J. Trump et al will decide to use a nuclear weapon in war for the first time in world history since August, 1945. As we get closer and closer to the November mid-terms, which he is desperately trying to tilt in his favor by making it costly and difficult for non-white, non-MAGA citizens to vote, and as we get further and deeper into a war Trump himself assured us was necessary (it wasn't) and would only last a few days. We are now nearing the second month of the Iran war with no progress, costing America more than a billion dollars and sometimes some lives each day, and costing Iran many billions more, along with thousands of lives, mostly civilian, and often women and children. How and when will it end? Why did it start in the first place? Will we ever know the real reason? Does the president cheat at golf? I ask this last question because we all know he does, and we all know he is commits war crimes as easily as he cheats at golf. Because as far as he's concerned, both are equally without consequence. We'll see.
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (originally written by me in 1999): https://acehoffman.blogspot.com/2007/08/effects-of-nuclear-weapons-by-russell.html
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