While I understand what you are asking, I take issue with the creation of the atomic bomb as "plumbing the ethical depths". More like an ethical gray area, IMHO. Developing the atomic bomb is only unethical if you are sure that you are the only team capable of completing the task. German and Soviet scientists/politicians of the time were fully willing and capable of developing similar weapons.
At the time of the Manhattan Project, the scientists involved must have assumed that the Nazis were working along similar lines, and allowing Hitler to have sole possession of nuclear weapon would hardly be the ethical choice. Stalin obtained nuclear weapons shortly after the US, and most historians would agree that it was fortunate that a democratic country obtained nuclear weapons before a murderous dictator did so.
The decision to drop nuclear weapons on Japan is more problematic, but there is a good argument to be made that this decision saved 100,000 US troops and millions of Japanese civilians. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed fewer people than the firebombing of Tokyo, and you have to remember that the US had seen the Japanese fight to the last man (civilians included), on several islands leading up to the decision to use nukes.
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While I understand what you are asking, I take issue with the creation of the atomic bomb as "plumbing the ethical depths". More like an ethical gray area, IMHO. Developing the atomic bomb is only unethical if you are sure that you are the only team capable of completing the task. German and Soviet scientists/politicians of the time were fully willing and capable of developing similar weapons.
At the time of the Manhattan Project, the scientists involved must have assumed that the Nazis were working along similar lines, and allowing Hitler to have sole possession of nuclear weapon would hardly be the ethical choice. Stalin obtained nuclear weapons shortly after the US, and most historians would agree that it was fortunate that a democratic country obtained nuclear weapons before a murderous dictator did so.
The decision to drop nuclear weapons on Japan is more problematic, but there is a good argument to be made that this decision saved 100,000 US troops and millions of Japanese civilians. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed fewer people than the firebombing of Tokyo, and you have to remember that the US had seen the Japanese fight to the last man (civilians included), on several islands leading up to the decision to use nukes.