One of the results of constant war (the War on Iraq is older than some of the soldiers deployed there): presented with hypothetical scenarios a third of people in the survey would support a ‚preventative‘ nuclear strike even with increasing civilian deaths. What is scary is that the scenarios have to be bogus: North Korea, half a world a way, can’t meaningfully threaten USA communities (even on Guam, any threat would be in response to USA threats). Rather, war drums & the war machine has convinced many in USA that all of this is a sport, that non-USA lives mean nothing, that we should all cheer on the home team … while the war profiteers get their blood money.
//The researchers said these results actually demonstrated a previously-established pattern among the U.S. public, which „exhibits only limited aversion to nuclear weapons use and a shocking willingness to support the killing of enemy civilians.“//