Quest for United States of America’s Diplomatic Apology to Japan over Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Moral Arguments

Abstract

The study posits that in spite of the strong and persuasive moral arguments of Atomic Bomb opponents who are emphatic that the United States of America was wrong to use the Atomic Bombs to end World War II with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki considering that there were some credible alternatives which the United States could have pursued to still bring the war to an end, the United States may not in the foreseeable future tender a diplomatic apology to Japan as has been called for from many quarters. The reasons for this assumption includes United States realism posture by which she undertakes any measure necessary for her security and survival which adds to the fact that she does not apologies for any action properly thought out and executed in her national interest. The United States which pursues her foreign policy from a realist perspective believes that the end justifies the means. The end sought in dropping the Atomic Bombs , according to the United States, was to put to a stop the human misery which the war would have continue to inflict if it was allowed to linger