Justified bombing

Sir: A.N Wilson’s suggestion that the 1945 nuclear bombing of Japan was “without any military or moral justification” (The Spectator 15 August 2015) is at best simplistic. The war in the Pacific cost hundreds of thousands of mostly American lives, as the Allied forces fought battles such as Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Peleliu places and conflicts that are in all likelihood unknown to Mr Wilson.