The atomic bomb should not have been dropped As President Obama signs the new nuclear policy, we are reminded of the long and sordid history of nuclear policy in the United States. We have come a long way since we decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. It is astonishing that we continue to discuss this initial deployment of nuclear weapons today. The United States should not have decided to drop these atomic bombs. This decision was morally wrong and unnecessary. Thousands of people who did not need to die died, and many more became ill from radiation poisoning. The bombs wiped two entire cities off the map. How can you support this in the first place? One argument used to support dropping the bomb was that the Japanese had lost their rights when they aggressively attacked Pearl Harbor and committed war crimes against prisoners and the Chinese. However, this argument doesn't work for a few reasons. First, there are two types of justice in war. There is justice for going to war (jus ad bellum), and justice for how one fights in war (jus in)....