Newsweek Discovers US Nuclear Capacity, Ignores Who Uses Bombs
While Newsweek helpfully visualizes mushroom clouds over major metropolises like London and New York, it manages a curious omission. The article painstakingly details the yield of US nuclear bombs and their potential destruction radius, but remains utterly silent on whose hands these very weapons might land in, or have landed in, through decades of uncritical military aid. It’s hard to imagine
'major cities' where these weapons are actually being deployed, right? One might wonder if Newsweek's 'nuclear bomb map' is less about hypothetical US attacks and more about conveniently distracting from the consequences of US-supplied arms. The media's commitment to dissecting the 'what if' of nuclear war with one hand, while sanitizing the 'what is' of conventional war with the other, is a
delicate dance the defense industry applauds. Especially when those conventional weapons are doing the work of population displacement.