Elizabeth Anscombe (In Our Time)
1956 · Resource
In 1956 Oxford University awarded an honorary degree to the former US president Harry S. Truman for his role in ending the Second World War. One philosopher, Elizabeth Anscombe (1919 – 2001), objected strongly. She argued that although dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have ended the fighting, it amounted to the murder of tens of thousands
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Around 1956
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)