Thomas Powers

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  1. Was It Right?

    Most of the debate over the atomic bombing of Japan focuses on the unanswerable question of whether it was necessary. But that skirts the question of its morality.  

    Hiromichi Matsuda / Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum / Getty
    Hiromichi Matsuda / Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum / Getty
  2. What Is It About?

    The United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in a competition that threatens both with nuclear annihilation