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Are nuclear bombs ethical? Explain please

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NO not at all.

Step-by-step explanation:

After reading the accounts of people who survived the bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 during World War II, I was horrified just reading the testimonies. Almost every single survivor described the skinless and bloated bodies they had seen everywhere. Inosuke Hayasaki, a surivor of the bombing, noticed one of his classmates, among many other citizens, pleading for water. When he tried listening for his heartbeat, his "skin slipped right off". Bombs are used in war so the other side will surrender. Bombs are aimed at "enemies" as if every being is an object to destroy. So no, bombing----let alone nuclear bombing----is ethical.

User Tomturton
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Yes, they are.

Step-by-step explanation:

The United States is one of these nuclear superpowers, making the ethical issues associated with these weapons critical and relevant. ... Most research across disciplines unanimously agrees that it is immoral to detonate an atomic weapon due to both short and long-term catastrophic effects.

In fact, some scholars have concluded that it is therefore morally wrong to act in ways that produce these outcomes, which means it is morally wrong to engage in nuclear warfare.

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