Fox Talker Levin Again Slyly Suggests Using Atom Bomb on Iran. Proximity to Trump a Cause for Alarm?

Neoconservative podcaster Mark Levin, whom President Donald Trump has implicitly confessed plays a major role in his decision-making, has again slyly suggested that the United States must attack Iran with a nuclear weapon.

Speaking on his Life, Liberty, and Levin Fox program, Levin again cited high casualties during World War II as the reason Democratic President Harry Truman vaporized Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August 1945.

Levin said Iran will not surrender to the United States, then ominously asked, “Remember Japan?”

Levin’s commentary would be meaningless if he didn’t have the president’s ear. Aside from permitting Levin to manhandle him at the White House, Trump thinks Levin is a “great American patriot” who is “far smarter” than his critics.

But a problem with Levin’s obsessively discussing atomic bombs and Japan is that military leaders at the time would not have agreed with him.

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Always sure to disavow that a nuclear weapon will be used against Iran, Levin again raised using one in the context of World War II, when Truman ordered the bombings 81 years ago.

“The Iranian regime is not going to surrender, it is never going to surrender,” Levin began, the first clue that a shaky history of World War II’s conclusion was ahead.

“We’ve been in wars before where we fought enemies that wouldn’t surrender, either,” he continued:

Remember the kamikazes? Remember Japan? Remember the emperor was like a demigod. The people back then, Tojo, was very stubborn, was very headstrong. And unfortunately we had to drop two atomic bombs until they would surrender. Obviously we’re not going to do that now.

Levin was less shy about it in April, when he ran down a history of American casualties.

“Let’s look at World War 2,” Levin began, noting that 10 percent of total casualties — some 80,000 to 90,000, including 19,000 dead — were in the Battle of the Bulge that began on December 16, 1944. “The Battle of Okinawa: 50,000-plus casualties, over 12,000, nearly 13,000 killed on that island, which is what convinced Truman that we would lose a million men if we didn’t drop the atomic bombs that we did,” he said.

After running through those casualties, Levin reached back to the War Between the States for some strange reason.

“This is a crucially important military operation, war, call it what you want, peace mission,” he continued:

And we ought to be celebrating the success of our military, unifying around our military and our commander-in-chief and urging them to complete the task, so our country is safe from nuclear weapons by insane, suicidal, primitives from the seventh century.

Trump Listens to Levin

After America First podcaster Megyn Kelly attacked Levin in March, Trump embarked on jihad on the Israel-First chicken hawk’s critics.

Those who disagree with Levin have “far less Intellect, Capability, and Love for our Country,” Trump wrote:

Mark is Tough, Strong, and Brilliant, hence the nickname, “THE GREAT ONE,” conceived by our MAGA friend, the wonderful Sean Hannity, after years of dealing with Mark in Legal, Media, and other capacities. … When you hear others unfairly attack Mark, remember that they are jealous and angry Human Beings, whose “sway” is much less than the Public understands, and will, now that they know where I stand, rapidly diminish. … Those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound. THEY ARE NOT MAGA, I AM, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran, a Sick, Demented, and Violent Terrorist Regime, to have a Nuclear Weapon to blow up the United States of America, the Middle East and, ultimately, the rest of the World.

Levin declared himself “beyond humbled by your words and graciousness in writing such a beautiful note and sharing it. … Your courage, strength, and moral clarity are truly unparalleled. And your leadership has made our country and the world much safer.”

Levin is so close to Trump that the president allowed the warmongering Fox talker to put him in a virtual headlock at the White House on December 16, 2025. Levin called Trump the first Jewish president to serve two terms. Trump heartily agreed. “It’s true, he said. “It’s true.”

What Flag Officers Said About Atomic Bombings

Levin’s rendition of casualty numbers are impressive, but the top commanders during the war did not believe hitting two cities — the second, Nagasaki, being the center of Japan’s Catholic Church — was necessary.

“I was against it on two counts,” wrote five-star Supreme Allied Commander and later President Dwight Eisenhower in his memoir, Mandate for Change.

First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

Eisenhower was describing a meeting with War Secretary Henry Stimson. He wrote that he had “grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives”:

It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of “face.”

Five-star Admiral William Leahy, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the war, expressed a similar sentiment in his memoir, I Was There.

“The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan,” he wrote. He added that the Japanese “were already defeated and ready to surrender,” and “in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”

Hard-nosed Admiral Bull Halsey said the “first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment.” 

It thus appears that American military leaders who knew something about military strategy and tactics differed with the man behind the microphone who claimed “we had to drop two atomic bombs until they would surrender.”