The Day the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. In last week's "Church Times" Paul Oestreicher expressed the now conventional view that this was a war crime (200,000 died in an instant and thousands more later) – and calls in support two wartime military leaders Eisenhower and Montgomery. But in "The Guardian" on Hiroshima Day, Oliver Kamm demurred. "The bomb was a deliverance for American troops for prisoners and slave labourers, for those dying of hunger and maltreatment throughout the Japanese empire – and for Japan itself "(where 20 million might have died had the war continued). Was the bomb necessary for the "peace party" in Japan's cabinet to prevail? Who can tell, but I remember the day and the accounts of the horrific fighting island by island that preceded it. My boyhood memory is of relief that the war had ended.