Who tested what and when? Aside from the discussion of fine line in the sand between testing and actually bombing, who bombed who, where, and when? Today's (February 2026) media view of global relations and history, is it really the truth of what has happened even considering events as recent as WWI?
Why is this relevant?
The start if 2026 has several ugly ruts or stalemates on the global relations level, but the lives lost are not stale, it keeps going.
Major situations right through here are:
Situation of Russia and Ukraine involving weaponry.
Discomforts in the Middle East, Markedly Palestine, Israel, Iran, while potentialities of unrest exist in other regions such as Syria.
So is it really true a simplicity that Russia is a mammoth that has always been, and it is wisest that it shall go untouched, perhaps the home of the historic woolly mammoth, respective size of the nation geographically and military might?
It turns out that essays, investigations, and evaluations of all these questions, from WWI on through 2/2026, have been done which expose some truths not often seen in today's media, and, those essays did not take into consideration a broader range of events that could affect a perspective.
Keep in mind that back in the WWI era, information sharing on a global level isn't what it's like today. It might have taken years or decades for the people of one country to know the deeds of another country. Especially events like testing and dropping bombs.
Meanwhile, propaganda and how bunch of 'highly educating' books were being churned out, which left the 'highly educated', undereducated.
Here is a brief look at some of the topics, that when studied altogether at the same time, without one-sided propaganda, might affect the lenses and perspectives of what happened from the timeline hallmarked by terms like Bolsheviki, WWI, WWII, and the major events and developments of today:
American Expeditionary Force Siberia or AEF-S
'was a formation of the United States Army involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russia, after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920. The force was part of the larger Allied North Russia intervention. As a result of this expedition, early relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were poor.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_Siberia
Rarely if ever, has grade school material been out in front of me that says along the lines 'nearly a couple of hundred US troops died in the cause, here is the list of veterans'; I haven't heard it from any other student, from any school, anywhere, any time.
Recurrent question, what's Romanovka?, or which is which?
'The Battle of Romanovka was fought in June 1919 during the Russian Civil War. Russian Bolsheviks of Yakov Tryapitsyn launched a surprise attack on an American army camp at Romanovka, near Vladivostok.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Romanovka
Yalta Conference
Lop Nur or Lop Nor testing, when was it?
-Online information may generally point to a start of about October 1964 with over 40 tests spanning through the mid 1990s.
Russian bomb testing, when was it?
-Briefly, fast access online sources might say,
RDS-1 or "First Lightning" (designated "Joe-1" by US), on August 29, 1949. The test took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.
Nakasaki/Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, when were they?
-Generally, early August 1945
Essays written:
In the referenced book, before, including, and around the essays 'A Military Necessity' (Feis), and Paterson's 'American Expressionism and Power'.
May beg a question such as, what accounts for lack of information on Lop Nur and Russia testing in these?
(Maybe there is down in there somewhere, but expounding paragraphs didn't seem readily noticeable.)
From the intro of the chapter 'The Atomic Bomb and Diplomacy', (Vol II of Major Problems in American Foreign Policy...Docs, Essays),
'Authorized...on populated areas because that was the only way to shorten the war and save American lives. Until the 1960s most historians accepted that conclusion. But recent scholarship, although not denying the argument that American lives would have been spared, has suggested that other considerations also influenced American leaders: relations with Soviet Russia, emotional revenge, momentum, and perhaps racism. Scholars today are also debating why several alternatives... we're not tried.'
Along with obviously I'm further behind in my readings than I should be, (I'm probably not the only one), the statement in that intro says, the concept is nothing new. The book was published in 1978.
What's this about encroachment towards being un-American if flow doesn't go with certain individuals, certain plans?
Maybe some folks grew up with parents or grandparents that were impressions youths back in the 1960s, and the warplans was the say all folkway, in order to truly have fealty to America.
Then again there's strong argument to that as the turbulent 60s probably wouldn't have been turbulent if everyone agreed on everything.
I never grew up to hold or express racism against anyone, whether they be from the Far East, Far West, nor aspects of myself and own history, or own people/s. I'm not going to start, the racism etc, anywhere in the timeline from 1978 on through the future.
That's the way of the ultimate heights of peace.