ELSIE King is, of course, quite right to point out that many dreadful crimes are committed in war, indeed, for some of us, war itself is a crime.
Nonetheless, there are some crimes that are worse than others.
Shimon Perez, whom one would have expected to regard Hitler's attempted extermination of his own people as the supreme crime, nonetheless coupled Hiroshima and Nagasaki with it seemed to me very significant and that is why I cited him.
Elsie King agrees that the bombing was a bad thing but to make it tolerable to herself she has to resort to myth.
There was no warning of either bombardment, while Truman deliberately protracted the war so that he would have an opportunity of using his new and terrible weapons.
His aim was to put the wind up the Soviet Union.
Malcolm Pittock
St James Avenue
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