The United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. The action saved the estimated one million American lives that would have been lost in a ground attack, it asserted America's place as a world power, and it was a quick end to the war.
Summary:
As retaliation for bombing Pear Harbor, President Harry S. Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Dropping the bomb was completely necessary as it was to protect the U.S. Truman was doing what was best and defending his country. Five days before the bombing of Hiroshima, the U.S. dropped a million leaflets over Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 33 other Japanese cities warning the citizens that we were going to drop a powerful bomb and destroy their city and that they should leave to save their lives. So Trumans intentions were never to harm the citizens, they tried to give warning to protect them but the japanese did not listen. We gave them more warning then they gave us with Pearl Harbor. Three Days after the Hiroshima bombing the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Nagasaki had a minor military port, only 250,000 people and had been untouched by conventional and fire bombing prior to the atomic bomb. In the end the Japanese did lose lots of civilian lives but to think if Truman didn't drop those bombs then the war would not have ended and Japan could have created the atomic bomb and attacked us, killing millions of Americans.
