
Marc LiVecche is McDonald research scholar at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, & Public Life at Christ Church College, Oxford University, and executive editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy. He is an incoming research fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy. His views are his own.
Seventy-five years ago, a U.S. Army Air Force B-29, the Enola Gay, dropped an 8,900-pound bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was a horror, but it was a moral horror.
At Guadalcanal, the Empire of Japan lost two-thirds of their 31,000-plus army troops committed to the fight. Approximately 1,600 Americans were killed.