Happy 250th Birthday USA! Without you, we'd have nothing; no freedom, no liberty, no humanity, no life worth living. Yes, the USA saved the UK and the Free World in Two World Wars and Cold War 1.0 (you won't know this if you're a fascist or Marxist, or listen to such anti-freedom propaganda from the BBC, however).
ABOVE: US Marine Corps approach ground zero after a 19 kiloton air burst at 1040 feet altitude in preparation for ending the Korean War by training in tactical deployment of battlefield nuclear combat, Nevada Test Site, Exercise Desert Rock IV, May 1, 1952 (Operation Tumbler-Snapper, test Dog). The Korean War ended in 1953, after the election of President Eisenhower, who let it be known he would end the stalemate war by using tactical nuclear weapons if an armistice was not signed. It was. Tactical nuclear weapons creadiness deterred the invasions that could otherwise has escalated to WWIII. Strategic countervalue nuclear weapons did not prove a credible deterrent to prevent invasions. Conventional weapons did not deter either World War. We need credible deterrence to end statemate war, collateral damage by conventional weapons, genocide, and massive war expenditure for no useful purpose.
