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HIS PAPER explores religious interpretations of the 1945 atomic bomb-ings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My goal in this paper is to challenge the presently prevailing atomic bomb discourse, which is bound by a nation-state framework, and to propose religious interpretations as alternative read-ings to these events.
The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was justified at the time as being moral – in order to bring about a more rapid victory and prevent the deaths of more Americans. However, it was clearly not moral to use this weapon knowing that it would kill civilians and destroy the urban milieu.
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