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Like someone else already pointed out, we set off the first nuclear bomb in our own country.
Do you honestly think we'd care more about Europe.
What we now know about nuclear fallout and it's long term consiquences wasn't very widely known in 1945, or even 1950.
and how it could be ingested by humans, as well as the consequent effects on human health, was not known before the attacks on Japan.
how it could be ingested by humans, as well as the consequent effects on human health
Fallout really wasn't understood at all prior to the analyses of the two bombs used against Japan
So it seems there was no shortage of the mindset needed to do such a terrible thing at high levels of government. I'm not sure if I am reassured or deeply troubled by the idea that only dropping a nuke 'a long way away' fit the popular mindset at the time as well.