Ep 220: Marc LiVecche on Hiroshima and Morality

School of War · Aug 5, 2025 · 42m

Marc LiVecche, McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence and author of The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury, joins the show to discuss Just War Theory and whether the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fit in that framework.

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Times

• 01:23 Introduction

• 01:30 Misspent youth

• 07:51 Moral injury

• 13:27 Conflicting views

• 19:15 Richard Frank

• 28:53 Right not moral

• 39:12 Not the same

• 40:36 Gifts from heaven

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