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It was wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Timothy P. Carney

Published August 7, 2013 4:00am ET

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It was wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki — In this Sept. 8, 1945 photo, an allied correspondent stands in front of a building that once was a movie theater in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S. on Aug. 6, 1945. (AP File) | Stanley Troutman

Ending a war is a good thing. Killing civilians a bad thing.

Deliberately targeting civilians is murder, and is never morally licit, even in pursuit of a good thing such as ending a war.

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