Dropping the big one(s)

This past week was the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A review of the main events makes you wonder if insanity was contagious, like a plague, during that time: the Italians had fascism, Germany had Hitler and Holocaust, Russia had Stalin and Communism, Japan had an emperor (who wanted to take over all of Asia), China had Mao, and the USA had the atom bomb.

Carl Sagan says...