A comment left on the blog Cacciaguida, and a reply relating to my posting just below here brought some followup that it will be useful to address. The Vatican II text under discussion is:
Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against [...]

The blog Cor ad cor loquitor has posted a summary retrospective discussion into whether or not the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally permissible, and provided many viewpoints both new and old. Some of the comments go into the apparently endless military and strategic details which accompanied the close of WWII and are, I [...]