Was it immoral to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

Christian Post ^ | 08/08/2020 | Richard Land

[otness_e]

I’d like to say no, it’s ultimately moral, or at the very least necessary, to drop the bombs ESPECIALLY given the circumstances (Japan started the war, and the alternative was to starve them, especially when Japan was insistent on honor deaths man woman and child, and also leaves the likelihood of Stalin exploiting the fighting to take over Japan without dirtying his hands, turning into a Soviet proxy state).

That said, however, I’ve seen comments otherwise from extremely unlikely and somewhat surprising sources, such as The New American (and bear in mind, this isn’t a liberal theologian site or something like The New Republic or Bloomberg News, this is the main paper of the John Birch Society, aka the conservative group that makes even Barry Goldwater at his prime come across as a leftist by comparison). Case in point:

https://thenewamerican.com/the-road-to-nagasaki/

https://thenewamerican.com/dropping-the-bomb-why-did-the-u-s-unleash-its-terrible-weapon/

https://thenewamerican.com/70th-anniversary-of-the-u-s-atomic-bombing-of-hiroshima/

[OIFVeteran]

Short answer-No
Long answer- Hell no!