At the Ron Paul Institute, James Carden notes that Fox News Channel host Mark Levin, a recent favorite of President Trump’s, insinuated on his show that Trump should nuke Iran. As evidential support for this idea, Levin noted the often heard aphorism that using nuclear weapons on Japan saved a million men. Carden writes:

In a recent televised rant on the Fox News Channel, the neoconservative publicist Mark Levin made the eye-opening claim that the current US-Israeli War on Iran is “every bit as important as World War Two.” Still more, according to Levin, the specter of an Iranian nuclear weapon (for which there is approximately zero evidence), requires us, as good citizens to rally around the President and the military. Not surprisingly, Levin also noted that President’s Truman decision to use atomic weapons against Japan saved “a million men” by forestalling a US invasion of the Japanese Home Islands (the inference being: Trump should do likewise). Truman’s decision to incinerate Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs remains a topic (among a number of others) with which we Americans largely deal in the counterfeit currency of myths.

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Here’s Mark Levin:

Is Mark Levin trying to implant in Trump’s brain that he should nuke Iran to avoid high US military casualties?

Note how he cites the Battle of Okinawa and says that’s “what convinced Truman that we’d lose a million men if we didn’t drop the atomic bombs that we did.” pic.twitter.com/b6H4wJCSXC

— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) April 5, 2026

Tucker Carlson rebutted Levin’s comments on his own show:

Tucker Carlson says Mark Levin is not-so-subtly counseling President Trump to use nuclear weapons against Iran. https://t.co/qTukhIFwSl pic.twitter.com/L7KbYjmBaP

— Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews) April 6, 2026