Last week, Trump Compared Bunker Busters to Atom Bombs.
That’s like comparing: Firing your apprentice to decimating a civilization!
The MOAB (Mother of All Bombs) may be America’s biggest non-nuclear bomb, but it doesn’t come with the generational radiation, surrender of nations, or the rewriting of world history.
The illusion here is not just technical, it’s historical and moral. Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t just military events – they were civilizational inflection points, forcing humanity to confront its capacity for self-destruction.
The MOAB left a crater.
The atomic bomb reshaped the globe – it is still the last word.
But Trump’s never been one to let nuance ruin a good soundbite. Or a bad one, for that matter.
As strategists, leaders, and communicators, we must resist such flattening of historical nuance.
Because careless comparisons make for ignorance that will explode.