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Status anxiety

If the bombing of Hiroshima was a moral obscenity, blame Emperor Hirohito

As a realist, I don’t have the luxury of certainty – but I’d rather be on Harry Truman’s side

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

The 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has produced some predictable wailing and gnashing of teeth about the horrors of nuclear weapons. The Guardian called the dropping of the bombs ‘obscene’, citing the figure of 250,000 casualties, and CND organised a commemorative event where Jeremy Corbyn renewed his call for unilateral nuclear disarmament.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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