<span>The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was justified at the time as being moral – in order to bring about a more rapid victory and prevent the deaths of more Americans. However, it was clearly not moral to use this weapon knowing that it would kill civilians and destroy the urban milieu. And it wasn’t necessary either.
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No military action led to the start of WW1; the catalyst to WW1 was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His murder by Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist, caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia, which drew the other European countries into the war due to their existing treaties of mutual defense.
