No one is in favor of the use of nuclear weapons. They were only used once, and reluctantly at that. I don’t get the impression that you are un-American so I don’t know what provoked your classmate’s comment. It is possible however, that he knew more about the subject than you do, […]
Written on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 by majorsawyer :: 0 comments to this post
No one is in favor of the use of nuclear weapons. They were only used once, and reluctantly at that. I don’t get the impression that you are un-American so I don’t know what provoked your classmate’s comment.
It is possible however, that he knew more about the subject than you do, and thought you were just being obtuse. If your history teacher did not have time to go into details, it was a matter of many smaller bombs or the two big ones. He probably didn’t tell you that the daily loss of life from conducting an unchecked war in the Pacific was staggering, and the Japanese leadership had ample warning, and refused to end the war they began even after that first bomb.
That said, you probably had the correct gut reaction. How could you not feel how horrible it is to use nuclear weapons? It is only when you have all the facts and closely examine the moral equation that I would hope you would see the world is full of choices between two evils, and that in this instance, it was a horrible choice the Japanese forced on us and their own people, surely a crime against humanity.
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