Which PAX AMERICANA : 1945 America's moral descent AND ascent

At the very beginning of WWII, America's leadership wwas convinced that, morally, only the Norden Precision Bombsight would allow it to win at war with minimum civilian casualties for the other side.

But by 1945, America's leadership had decided that its new chief weapon was to be a weapon of mass terror and mass destruction, The Bomb.

Its only truly unique capability was its ability to burn alive all the residents of a large city at one go.

And with only America possessing it, America could become God's terrifying Avenging Angel over the whole world .

From plan A's Norden precision killing to plan B's Yellowcake mass killing, it is easy to see a steep moral fall in America's moral leadership.

REAL chemists finally gave us natural penicillin - while wannabe chemists wasted decades on synth penicillin

One of the saddest ironies of the fifteen wasted years before the world got the best lifesaver ever known - penicillin - was that it was real chemists who finally delivered natural penicillin in time for D-Day and to save the millions under threat of epidemic deaths in the aftermath of WWII.

Let us then honor them - names like Glaxo's Harry Jephcott , Pfizer's John L Smith and the WPB-OPRD's Larry Elder.

By contrast, it was chemist manques - chemist wannabes - who wasted decades, millions of human lives and millions in taxpayers' money in a hubris-fueled chase after the mirage of man-made penicillin.

Exploiting eugenic purity and war scarcity for profit : the MERCK story

A culture (the Modern Era 1870-1960) that successfully convinced itself that eating whole wheat bread mother made herself in her own kitchen was unsafe and that white bread made in a factory a hundred miles away was much safer  is obviously crazy enough to fall for pretty well anything and everything.

Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin aside, it also fell hard for the idea of extending the false promises of eugenic purity to everything.

Rejecting mama's fresh from the oven bread was just a pre-game warm-up.