[Vision2020] Why the Nagasaki Bombin and Why So Soon After?

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

There is credible evidence that the main reason for the Nagasaki bombing was to test a different type of bomb.  I don't have the details or references at my finger tips, but they are available.

Furthermore, when I have time I want to lecture the list about the moral failings of utilitarianism, the only "moral" theory that can conclude that the ends justify the means, and theory that has been used quite a bit by at least two on this list.  

I believe that the atomic bombing of Japan, just as any conventional bombing of populated centers, can have no moral justification at all.  It can be justified as only an expedients means to a desired end and nothing more than that.

Nick Gier