07-08-2025
PETER HITCHENS: Do we excuse the horrors of Hiroshima because we can't bear to admit it might have been a great moral crime?
Was the USA right to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima 80 years ago? Most people think so, even though they also realise that the attack killed many innocent civilians, often in quite horrible ways which it is hard to face.
Do they excuse those gruesome horrors of burned human flesh and radiation sickness because they simply can't bear to consider the possibility that it was both a major mistake and a moral crime?
