‘When I say that to choose to kill the innocent as a means to one’s ends is murder, I am saying what would generally be accepted as correct,’ wrote Elizabeth. We may wonder what ‘innocent’ means, but a definition here is not necessary; ‘with Hiroshima and Nagasaki we are not confronted with a borderline case. In the bombing of these cities, it was certainly decided to kill the innocent as a means to an end.’
