Michael Walzer's "Right to War" takes effect when another attacks a state. Therefore the United States being attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor without diplomatic notice were given the legitimate excuse to go to the war in a war that could last longer due to temperament embattled Japanese soldier in combat. This author justifies the decision of the President of the United States when he notes “Truman used the atomic bomb to end a war that seemed to him limitless in its horror” (P.269). Walzer maintains that nuclear offense which U.S. used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki fell short of the moral and territorial to the United States attack as in international society States has rights that must be respected, such as the right of political sovereignty
