A Counter Argument on Hiroshima and a Tribute to a Gallant American.
I read Chris Check’s reflections on the death of Brigadier General Paul Tibbets with great interest. Most historians believe that Tibbet’s role in the atom bombing of Hiroshima was the caused U. S. victory and the end of the Second World War. Check expresses reservations as to the necessity of this action, indeed whether or not the theory, practice and technology of modern warfare allows any war to be prosecuted in accordance with the Just War theory. Check does not seem to fall into the camp of those historical revisionists who make spurious claims that the Japanese were readying plans to surrender anyhow—which negated using the A-Bomb. Instead he offers a pointed criticism that the bomb was employed under any rationale and a concomitant reappraisal of Gen. Tibbets’ role on that historic mission.
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