The Ethics of War: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Gregory P. Pavlik
... Since the last "good war," a debate has ensued over the moral
legitimacy of the use of nuclear weapons, particularly against
civilians. The critics hold that it is a crime to incinerate civilians
en masse; defenders commonly claim that the bombing was necessary to
bring the war to a close, thereby saving countless American lives. Most
of those who make this claim do so in earnest. The problem is that this
defense is both historically false, and taken to its logical
conclusion, extremely dangerous ... The U.S. War Department and related
agencies that specialized in producing hate propaganda and lies
developed specifically racialist attacks on the Japanese.
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