Why would a Catholic support nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Chris Check is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers podcast for living,

understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Sy Kelly at your host.

And this week, as this episode is posted, we're commemorating the

anniversary of the dropping of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

That's commemorated at the beginning of each August.

And so we thought we'd take this opportunity to look at a little bit of video

from Prager University, a very fine outfit on the internet

that posts videos on various topics.

In this one, a Catholic priest, Father Wilson McCamble, professor of history

at Notre Dame University, explains why he feels that we should absolutely be supporting

the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Let's start by a quick listen to what Father had to say.

President Harry S. Truman's decision to use atomic weapons against the Japanese

cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki proved to be one of the most

controversial decisions in American history.

As the years have passed, the controversy has only intensified.

More and more people, both in America and abroad,

have condemned both President Truman and America for that decision.

But this criticism is based on limited historical knowledge of both the situation

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