Here is a link to Father Miscamble’s recent essay defending Harry Truman. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/12/4422
Father Miscamble’s essay is a response to an earlier essay by Christopher Tollefsen in which Tollefsen criticizes Father Miscamble’s book (“The Most Controversial Decision”) about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tollefsen contends that Father Miscamble has abandoned a moral absolute–that the intentional killing of the innocent is always wrong–and that so doing is ultimatley threatening to the pro-life cause. Miscamble contends that “Tollefsen’s critique is rather abstract and detached from a real understanding of the war against Japan in 1945 and the courses of action open to Harry Truman.” In the end, Miscamble concludes that his position doesn’t lead to “the unraveling of the entire pro-life garment. [Miscamble believes] that Truman pursued the least-harmful course of action available to end a ghastly war, a course that resulted in the least loss of life.”
Richard M.