Bunker thinking, on one day of remembrance of burned Hiroshima and burned Nagasaki- recalling the time when the United States of America dropped atomic bombs on 2 cities of humans living in paper houses.
Not "collateral damage" or the metrics of war. Flesh and blood humans of all ages and all levels of innocence were sacrificed.
Collective punishment.
In my own daydream utopian world, every politician would be forced to see 'The Fog of War' and write an essay on it, and be required to talk about it, weekly, with small groups of randomly chosen citizens.

Kubrick's nightmare of insanity in charge, Dr. Strangelove:
The hope of the world, scientists and sanity working for life, Dr. Hans Bethe:
Hans Bethe: Hiroshima and the creation of the Federation of American Scientists
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