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...Even scrupulous moralists agree that World War II was the closest thing to a just war in modern times. And yet, in retrospect, the means were horrifying. The saturation bombings of Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin were designed primarily to kill and demoralize civilians. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified as taking fewer Japanese and American lives than would have been lost in an invasion. But the fact remains that the bombing of Germany and Japan obliterated the discrimination of a just war between soldier and civilian. This led many Christian thinkers to decide that the concept...
...result of Manhattan Project Machinist David Greenglass's secret testimony in 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for giving the Russians what the U.S. prosecutor described as a sketch of the 1945 Nagasaki "Fat Man" atomic bomb (see cut). For purportedly aiding the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell got 30 years. But was the sketch substantially accurate...
...Manhattan Project scientists are prepared to back Sobell's claim that the sketch was false, inaccurate and incomplete. Whatever the outcome, the case has already supplied a crucial bit of historical fallout. Last week a Manhattan federal court released the long-impounded alleged sketch of the Nagasaki bomb-the first time it has ever been seen in public...
...nuclear sophisticates, the sketch was actually old hat. Today, almost any bright high school physics student understands the basic principles of the Nagasaki bomb...
Although they helped create the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, and have subsequently produced hundreds of weapons capable of unprecedented destruction, the citizens of Los Alamos are neither self-conscious nor guilt-ridden about their role. They are also remarkably unconcerned about living in a city that would be a prime target in any war, and in which megaton-range weapons are produced within sight of their front doors. This sense of detachment, caused more by geography than psychology, extends even to world events. While Los Alamos residents become passionately involved in local controversies and conservation drives, they are notably uncommunicative...