Hiroshima 1995. (moral aspects of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945)(Editorial)

Commonweal | August 18, 1995 | Copyright

In August 1945 the end of war with Japan ushered in an era of peaceful American-japanese relations that has lasted for fifty years. An outcome so positive and enduring could hardly have been imagined after the fierce combat that brought the war to Japanese territory in the spring and summer of 1945, nor, indeed, after our use of the atomic bomb. At Iwo Jima and Okinawa Americans faced a Japanese force committed to victory or suicide (see Nancy Westerfield's account on page 30); the U.S. Air Force fire bombed Tokyo in March and then other Japanese cities, killing hundreds of ...

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