James6 comments on Hiroshima Day - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James6 07 August 2008 04:54:47AM 2 points [-]

In a world full of irrational people with availability biases, it is likely that seeing the effects of two weak nuclear bombs against Japan helped prevent the use of an arsenal of hydrogen bombs against Korea, Vietnam or the Soviet Union.