If you narrow it down to just testing nukes, obviously you will only have a very short list of countries.Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:26 pmObviously it's appalling and indefensible to have done that.
The combination of racism and nuclear-testing-on-foreign-civilians does seem part of a typical pattern for the US specifically - which isn't to say that other countries don't do bad things, as lpm is trying to suggest with her boring straw man there.
The list of countries I'd be a bit surprised if they'd done something like this is quite long, actually. The list where I'd be like "hmm sounds about right" is a lot shorter: USA, UK (though probably not on its own), China, France, Russia/USSR. Who am I missing? You need places that develop weapons of mass destruction, have overseas territories etc. at all (which is actually pretty unusual, globally speaking) and whose interactions with the world are mediated via a belief in racial/cultural superiority.
I'm sure the Spanish and Portuguese would have done it when they were expanding their empires, for example, but that was a long time ago so their opportunities for biological warfare were much smaller.
Morally, I don't think testing weapons on your 'enemies' - internal or external - is any better, but it is a lot more usual geopolitically AFAICT.
But only an idiot would do that.
Other countries could - and did - express their belief in their racial/cultural superiority, exert their strategic goals and disregard human lives in other countries using AK-47s and economic extortion.
Here in Britain's 2020, carelessness and outright disregard for human life seems very much alive and well, in everything from drowning Bangladesh to killing old people to drone bombing Middle East enemies. No need to go back to 1956. The only reason to go back to outrages of 1956 is to highlight how eternally sh.t we are when pursuing our own selfish goals.