By Michael Ippolito, Crisis Magazine - No faithful Catholic could look at the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and be proud of that decision... The dropping of the atomic bomb was evil. For the average conservative commentator, this comment automatically causes a knee-jerk reaction with the same old platitudes. For decades, the American Right has been the defender of our usage of the atomic bomb, with either “it saved more American lives” or “it was the lesser of two evils” being some of the strongest candidates.