This series is about the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, remains one of the most consequential and morally contested events in modern history. A close examination of what happened there, and of the arguments that surround it, ultimately makes the case for peace not as a vague ideal, but as a hard-won and rationally necessary conclusion. The city was reduced to a landscape resembling a "graveyard with not a tombstone standing. The official justification was that the bombings were necessary to avoid an all-out invasion. This rationale, however, has been fiercely debated ever since. Peace Is Valid: Arguments from Nagasaki. The historical record of Nagasaki does not merely document a tragedy; it provides moral foundation for why peace—specifically the abolition of nuclear weapons and the prevention of war—is a valid and urgent imperative. Some surviving witnesses continues to urge people to "hold on dearly to peace" thus proven by the very lives of those who endured the bomb: their survival and their message are a living argument that what happened to them must never happen to anyone else. The Nagasaki bombing shows the paradox of “peace through deterrence.”