Thank God for the Deaths of 200,000 Civilians
August 6, 2015
Actually, the article in the War Street Journal was titled “Thank God for the Atomic Bomb.” [subscription required to read; let me know if you can find it online somewhere] A critique of the article is here. Dwight Eisenhower said: “The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing,” and he was, of course, correct, but even if Japan was not ready to surrender, I would say that it is never right, or just, or moral to kill 200,000 civilians to possibly prevent the deaths of an unknown number of soldiers. And see also my article “Nuclear Christians.”
N.B.: Someone told me that if you type the name of the WSJ article in Google News that it will come up. It just worked for me.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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