Don't know if my S.O. had that on her list (?) and in those days [pre-Alt-Facts] I suspect that his rational analysis would have yielded a few bitchin Factoids.

(I learned of 'Zyklon B' and its fine quip from her, natch ~~ that time.) This long-unFaced Matter seems to limn Teddy Roosevelt's (Universal?) mentioned deduction:
Americans learn only from catastrophe, never from experience.

Welcome to our sorry-little (but never-really "Sorry we did that!") US-ian Tribal mix.