{"id":148733,"date":"2022-10-23T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/vladimir-putin-justifies-use-of-nuclear-weapons-citing-the-u-s-precedent-in-world-war-two"},"modified":"2022-10-23T10:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T15:22:19","slug":"vladimir-putin-justifies-use-of-nuclear-weapons-citing-the-u-s-precedent-in-world-war-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/vladimir-putin-justifies-use-of-nuclear-weapons-citing-the-u-s-precedent-in-world-war-two","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin Justifies Use of Nuclear Weapons Citing the U.S. Precedent in World War Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vladimir-putin-justifies-use-of-nuclear-weapons-citing-the-u-s-precedent-in-world-war-two2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putin in threatening to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war is following Adolf Hitler\u2019s precedent, not the U.S.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When Truman chose the atomic bomb over policy options that likely would have killed millions more, he did it to end a war started by Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin in threatening to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war is following Adolf Hitler\u2019s precedent, not the U.S. When Truman chose the atomic bomb over policy options that likely would have killed millions more, he did it to end a war started by Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}