# Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Justified? A Christian Debate

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106407961790734816
- Source account: [@SilviusBerthold](https://x.com/SilviusBerthold)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:21
- Published: 2026-10-03
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6HykKPc5EzWd/en/were-the-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-justified-a-christian-debate

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6HykKPc5EzWd/en/were-the-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-justified-a-christian-debate) We also killed hundreds of thousands of children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and you're saying it's okay To end the war. Well, I think it was justified.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6HykKPc5EzWd/en/were-the-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-justified-a-christian-debate?t=6) I think the nuc- use of nuclear weapons, uh, at the end of the Second World War was justified.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6HykKPc5EzWd/en/were-the-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-justified-a-christian-debate?t=10) So what you're saying as a Christian is, yes, it is okay to kill- It was a proportionate- ... children who did nothing wrong ... it was a proportionate response, yes.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6HykKPc5EzWd/en/were-the-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-justified-a-christian-debate?t=16) Do you feel that that is a Christian position?

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6HykKPc5EzWd/en/were-the-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombings-justified-a-christian-debate?t=18) Yes. Really?