“I realized, ‘Oh shoot! I have to go in and save this kid.'"

The president has said he'd welcome a nuclear arms race. We should be very clear about what that means.

Nope, no way.

We should remember it always, and clearly, and with detail. The loss of those 200,000 people vanishing in two lethal flashes of light with their billowing mushroom clouds hanging above is still hard to wrap your mind around. The fact that so many were civilians is horrific.

The mayor of Hiroshima called nuclear weapons "the absolute evil and ultimate inhumanity."