I believe that dissent is good thing.

The armbands have a patch with a red slash running through the high school's logo, a mushroom cloud. "There's no silver lining behind this cloud," it reads.

This is a pretty much innocuous article, but this caught my attention:

The issue has been disputed in Richland for years, and the controversy even caught the attention of media nationwide in years past. And it's been a sore subject internationally. A delegation of 35 activists came from Japan to protest the symbol 15 years ago.

Accent mine. Why do the Japanese think we dropped nukes on them? We were left with no choice. We were attacked unilaterally and unprovoked.