George Weigel’s Moral Blind Spot
George Weigel, papal biographer, in a recent article in First Things, offers a defense of President Truman’s terrible decision in 1945 to destroy the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with most of their inhabitants, as a swift way to end the war with Japan. As Mr. Weigel reminds us, it was seventy-five years ago[…]