This is Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids: Lindsey Graham rails against U.S. pausing shipments of bombs to Israel. [Video]

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday questioned senior defense leadership about the United States pausing the shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel — and he appeared to make a comparison to World War II while doing so.

“Would you have supported dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … to end World War II? … Do you think that was disproportionate?” the Republican from South Carolina asked Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair General Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing about the fiscal year 2025 budget request.

“Well, I’ll tell you: it stopped the World War,” Brown said.

“I agree with chairman here,” Austin said. “I think the leadership was interested in curtailing —”

“Well, what’s Israel interested in?” Graham said, before he brought up Israel facing several threats in the region.

“Israel’s been hit in the last few weeks by Iran, Hezbollah, and …