text: The dropping of one nuclear bomb on a city of Japan alone was immoral from a Catholic moral perspective, as was the indiscriminate night bombing of German cities by the British, and the firebombing of Dresden, among other immoral acts during WWII.
  
  The justification by President Truman was an application of situation ethics, a moral analysis which purports to weigh an action by its results.
  
  Situation ethics is not consistent with a Catholic moral analysis in any situation.