Shock, sadness, fear, anger: The 9/11 attacks inflicted a devastating emotional toll on Americans. A devastating emotional toll, a lasting historical legacy Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who took part is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. 26 suicide bombing at Kabul airport, and all of it was conducted before the completion of the evacuation. Most of the interviewing was conducted before the Aug. 11 terrorist attacks is based on an analysis of past public opinion survey data from Pew Research Center, news reports and other sources.Ĭurrent data is from a Pew Research Center survey of 10,348 U.S. This examination of how the United States changed in the two decades following the Sept. adults say the United States has mostly failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan. And after a war that cost thousands of lives – including more than 2,000 American service members – and trillions of dollars in military spending, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that 69% of U.S. Yet the public’s initial judgments on that mission are clear: A majority endorses the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, even as it criticizes the Biden administration’s handling of the situation. foreign policy and America’s place in the world. military forces from Afghanistan, the departure has raised long-term questions about U.S. public opinion in the two decades since 9/11 reveals how a badly shaken nation came together, briefly, in a spirit of sadness and patriotism how the public initially rallied behind the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, though support waned over time and how Americans viewed the threat of terrorism at home and the steps the government took to combat it.Īs the country comes to grips with the tumultuous exit of U.S. Yet an ever-growing number of Americans have no personal memory of that day, either because they were too young or not yet born.Ī review of U.S.
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11 attacks is clear: An overwhelming share of Americans who are old enough to recall the day remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. military response: Afghanistan and Iraq The ‘new normal’: The threat of terrorism after 9/11 Addressing the threat of terrorism at home and abroad Views of Muslims, Islam grew more partisan in years after 9/11 public opinion, but many of its impacts were short-lived U.S. Displaced populations from a nuclear war will produce a refugee crisis that is orders of magnitude larger than any we have ever experienced.Ħ Whether or not they are detonated, nuclear weapons cause widespread harm to health and to the environment.ħ Spending on nuclear weapons detracts limited resources away from vital social services.A devastating emotional toll, a lasting historical legacy 9/11 transformed U.S. Even a single nuclear detonation in a modern city would strain existing disaster relief resources to the breaking point a nuclear war would overwhelm any relief system we could build in advance. The thousands of nuclear weapons possessed by the US and Russia could bring about a nuclear winter, destroying the essential ecosystems on which all life depends.ĥ Physicians and first responders would be unable to work in devastated, radioactively contaminated areas. Casualties from a major nuclear war between the US and Russia would reach hundreds of millions.Ģ The extreme destruction caused by nuclear weapons cannot be limited to military targets or to combatants.ģ Nuclear weapons produce ionizing radiation, which kills or sickens those exposed, contaminates the environment, and has long-term health consequences, including cancer and genetic damage.Ĥ Less than one percent of the nuclear weapons in the world could disrupt the global climate and threaten as many as two billion people with starvation in a nuclear famine. Several nuclear explosions over modern cities would kill tens of millions of people. 1 A single nuclear weapon can destroy a city and kill most of its people.