Because the result of nuking an enemy country would be to give the (now somewhat pissed-off) enemy population superpowers.
In fact, it’s a mystery why Japan didn’t win World War II in that universe.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
The radiation-induced-powers characters like the FF, Peter Parker, Bruce Banner — they were all created in some kind of ironic twist on their own arrogance and self-confidence.
Banner invented the gamma bomb that should have killed him, Parker was a science genius who was irradiated by a science experiment, Reed Richards own ship is what carried the FF into the cosmic rays.
So in the case of the Japanese, what should have happened is that a bunch of Japanese mutants would be created as a result of the Japanese desire to oppose US hegemony in the Pacific. The sons of bitches how dare they, and whatnot.
Well, it’s preferable to the effects of radiation in our universe.
Well, they got Godzilla.
Nelson: I’d have thought an atomic bomb would kill him!
Bart: Well, now you know better.
I believe the line you attribute to Nelson was actually Martin’s.
History shows again, and again how nature points out the folly of man?