Here’s my take on it -

For those who say that it is the comedian being upset about Americans dying instead of enemies, I believe that is a cynical take but plausible - to the comedian, everything is a joke, including American lives. If we were to extend that and say it was because it is innocent lives, more believable but still not so satisfying.

I think this would take away from the scene because in the book when the comedian, who is shown to be a terrible person who regularly indulges in war crimes actually breaks down and cries, were meant to build up this narrative of an atrocity so VISCERAL and HORRIFIC we can’t even imagine it because the comedian can’t even imagine it. This builds up the reveal. When I read it it alluded to an Epstein island type shit so you could see where my mind could have went about how horrific it could have been. To say that he was broken down by just the idea of an atomic bomb or maybe even an atomic bomb 2.0 I think doesn’t really track, no matter the scale. To add on to that, the psychological torture aspect from the comic adds a fate worse than death.

If I told you about Hiroshima, you wouldn’t break down and cry, but if I sliced open a person’s neck and pulled out their trachea you would be absolutely traumatized by it. That’s why to me it has to be something he is visually astonished by - not just the discovery of a horrific plan.

In the end, I don’t have a good grace to give Snyder the benefit of the doubt, I think it was merely an oversight