A great and thoughtful article. Thank you, Patricia. And, thank you Juan for publishing this for us to read.
I don’t disagree with any aspect of this article. I fully support that we should be focused on nuclear disarmament, and not modernization of our nuclear arsenal.
I do wonder about 2 hypotheticals:
1. If Truman firmly believed that the dropping of the 2 atomic bombs would likely shorten the war and save American lives, was doing so morally worse than the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden? From Wiki, the “firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II, greater than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.”
2. If atomic bombs were not used, would they have been used in subsequent wars, that may have escalated into an even greater catastrophe?
It is also worth noting that we have found another way of ending life on earth - the unlimited burning of fossil fuels.
A great and thoughtful article. Thank you, Patricia. And, thank you Juan for publishing this for us to read.
I don’t disagree with any aspect of this article. I fully support that we should be focused on nuclear disarmament, and not modernization of our nuclear arsenal.
I do wonder about 2 hypotheticals:
1. If Truman firmly believed that the dropping of the 2 atomic bombs would likely shorten the war and save American lives, was doing so morally worse than the firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden? From Wiki, the “firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II, greater than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.”
2. If atomic bombs were not used, would they have been used in subsequent wars, that may have escalated into an even greater catastrophe?
It is also worth noting that we have found another way of ending life on earth - the unlimited burning of fossil fuels.