The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
The whole idea of a nuclear system is to have a deterrent where we decide if we're going to use it.
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it's madness.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.