Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such an intention does not include overthrow of an enemy's political system unless the system is an obvious threat to international security. Says the commission: "No nation has the right forcibly to impose upon another the political system that it fancies, even if that system be dubbed '...
"Harmless" Civilians? If the war is just, does it matter what means are used to win it? Yes, says the commission: "A surgeon, driven to amputate a foot to save a patient's life, would be blameworthy if he unnecessarily cut off the whole leg." In the same way...
Is the atom bomb, then, ever permissible? On this one, the commission made confused sounds. It agreed "that . . . [it] is inadmissible as a means of attack upon objectives in inhabited cities." But "there would be no objection to using it against a military target (if such were found)-which could...
But should Christian civilization leave itself at the mercy of an aggressor who does not care where his bombs fall? The commission bowed to the ancient doctrine of "military necessity." If a nation which renounced The Bomb would be helpless before an enemy that did not, "then retention of the...
If one nation began hostilities by launching an atom bomb attack against principal cities, the commission agreed that a reply in kind would be justified.