Write a 250-word short essay on your opinion of this particular critique of the U.S. bombing of Japan in the Second World War. Your paper should discuss the following:
Do you agree with U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay’s statement that had the U.S. lost the war against Japan, the American aircrews would have been treated as war criminals for their conduct of bombing Japanese cities, to include Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Was the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan by the United States at the end of World War II moral or immoral?
Consider especially the contrasting positions of Elizabeth Anscombe and Reinhold Niebuhr on pages 122-124(is a part of chpt 4 which is included) in your textbook, Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War.