In his Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age 
The Nagasaki syndrom “means that ‘what has been done once can be repeated over again, with ever weaker reservations’; with each successive case, more and more ‘matter-of-factly, casually, with little deliberation or motive.’ ‘The repetition of outrage is not just possible, but probably – as the chance to win the battle to prevent it gets smaller, while that of losing it rises’” (142).
It’s a gruesome sort of mimetic violence, a macabre illustration of Rupert Sheldrake’s “morphic resonance.”
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