Science, religion and the atomic bomb

Not exactly late-breaking news, but using the atomic bomb as example of the evils of science keeps coming up, so I want to deal with it. For example, in a statement supposedly trying to smooth over the differences between science and religion, the Vatican stated:

"We know where scientific reason can end up by itself: the atomic bomb… fruit of a reason that wants to free itself from every ethical or religious link."

So they go on to claim that religion should oversee science.

But a bomb does no harm unless it is dropped on someone. So who made the decision to bomb the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Not the scientists. Most of the scientists who knew about the bomb signed letters to President Truman asking that the bomb never be used, especially against civilians. But they had no say in the final decision.

Then who did decide to bomb cities full of women and children? Christians all:
President Harry S. Truman was a Baptist.
Secretary of state James F Byrnes was an Anglican/Episcopalian.
Secretary of War Henry Stimson was a Presbyterian.

So where was religion’s famous morality when these decisions were made? And where they now while our self-proclaimed Christian President George W. Bush wages a war in Iraq based on lies which kills civilians by the thousand?

So don’t try to push religious morality on me. I will take my morality from science: from those (mostly forgotten) scientists who cried out for restraint and compassion for others and were ignored.