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For a prince, a dictator, or a tyrant national power is an end unquestioned.  A democratic state, however, substituting an elected president for a prince, must present national power as benign, serving the interests of liberty, justice, and humanity.  If such a state, which is surrounded with the rhetoric of democracy and liberty and, in truth, has some measure of both, engages in a war that is clearly against a vicious and demonstrably evil enemy, then the end seems so clean and clear that any means to defeat that enemy may seem unjustified.

Such a state was the United States and such an enemy was fascism, represented by Germany, Italy, and Japan.  Therefore, when the atomic bomb appeared to be the means for a quicker victory, there was little hesitation to use it.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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