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Well I think it's more than obvious that a first strike with a nuclear weapon during peace time would be the most horrifying thing mankind would ever witness.

Precisely! Dropping the bomb on Hiroshima was never just defeating the already defeated Japanese; we were also sending a message to the postwar Stalinist regime. Truman, an artillery captain in WWI understood his cannon was bigger than the Soviets-so a demonstration was in order... That message could stand repeating against China in the South China Sea, Russia in Ukraine and Syria..and of course the evil Iranians. Should megalomaniac Fatboy actually deploy a missile with a nuke-tip or any test missile land on an allied sovereign territory: Guam, Japan, Saipan etc....the game is up: hasta la vista Pyongyang; essentially a Potemkin village in the first place. But the message, like the one in 1945, will be clear. That should keep everyone relatively tranquil for the next half century....N. Korea is really perfect situated and expendible for the political demonstration imho. Trump will of course be the 'bad guy'....but he's politically expendable too! So, we get rid of two bad-hair megalomaniacs!