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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.
So Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bombings that preceded them, the decisions that led to them, and the rationalizations that justified them, remain with us today, underwriting both some of our most grievous moral errors, and our more ambiguous moral triumphs.
5 Αυγ 2020 · Following the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 75 years ago this month – the decision was justified only in terms of its outcome, not its morality.
14 Φεβ 2021 · On the 6 th of August 1945, and then again on the 9 th of August, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At least 150,000 civilians were immediately killed, and more would later die.
20 Ιουλ 2020 · Many scholars and pundits continue to claim that the Hiroshima nuclear bombing was legitimate, however, implying that the attack – and presumably other attacks like it in the future – can be justified on the grounds that it saved many American soldiers’ lives, even at the cost of many foreign civilians’ lives.
In examining whether the atomic bombing was a reasonable decision, this thesis analyzes the important variables and competing interests that President Truman considered and concludes that the atomic bombing was a sensible and rational choice and, therefore, reasonable. In determining whether the atomic
United States justified using virtually any means to win the war. Thus the Allies' willingness to employ such savage weapons and methods of warfare as the flame-thrower, napalm bombs, and the obliteration bombing of urban centers disposed many Americans to condone the surprise use of the atomic bomb.10
