Just War?

Jus ad bellum: Appropriate reasons to enter into war

self-defense

defense of others

human rights

Jus in bello: ethical conduct in war

protection of non-combatants

suffering of the population should be mitigated

proportionate violence

"the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender.… in being the first to use it, we…adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.”-- Adm. William Leahy

Hiroshima, 1945