Got that backwards mate, a nuke is simply a weapon that uses nuclear fission (and fusion for H-bombs) to create a massive blast releasing large amounts of radiation. The difference is not hydrogen vs nuke, it's hydrogen (fission/fusion reaction) vs atomic (fission only reaction). And Hydrogen>Atomic. Fat Man and Little Boy were atomic weapons. Hydrogen bombs weren't invented by Edward Teller until 6 years after the end of WW2.



Not to downplay the disaster of 9/11, but really, how threatening are they to everyday life in America?

Around a bit over 3,000 people have died on American soil due to Islamic extremists. Let me put that into perspective.

Around 300,000 people died immediately in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America would have to suffer 99 -more- 9/11s just to compare to what we did to Japan over a few days.

In America, according to the NHTSA report on 2013, over 32,000 people died from car accidents. We suffer nearly 11 9/11 accidents every year just from killing ourselves behind the wheel. You would only have to take the combined kills of 2005-2013 to nearly match the destruction caused in Japan at roughly 297,000 deaths. We suffer a 9/11 attack nearly every month from cars.

In America, according to the NVSR (Vol. 61, #4, page 5) as of 2010, we suffer nearly 600,000 deaths every year from heart attacks alone. It's like every six months we suffer the same nuclear attack on Japan. We suffer a 9/11 of heart attacks every two days.

Is the senseless killing of others through extremest attacks horrible and tragic? Yes. But in the grand scheme of things it is by no means something worthy causing and -perpetuating- broad hate speech against that initial entity and especially not the nuking of it.