I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt about it being used," (https://history.state.gov). Truman had given Japan an opportunity to surrender, warning them of complete destruction, but the ultimatum that he sent was ignored and the Japanese government ignored it and faced, "utter devastation," (HIST, 426). So on Aug. 6, 1945 the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, "causing death or serious injury to about 160,000 people," (HIST, 426) then later there was a second bomb dropped on, "Nagasaki killing between 60,000 and 80,000 people," (HIST, 426). This lead to the inevitable surrendering of Japan. .
More often than not whenever there is a decision made that involves tax dollars, military, people's lives or really the United States in general, people have some kind of opinion and sometimes the popular opinion is not in favor of whatever decision was made. This was especially true for the use of the atomic bomb. The bombing of Hiroshima and later Nagasaki was a true devastation to Japan and people often only take into consideration what is happening at the present time. At the time of the bombing all people seemed to take into consideration was the amount of destruction they saw and they amount of lives that had been lost because of those bombs. But was is often not taken into consideration is the reason why those bombs were used. I believe that the use of the atomic bomb was what saved countless amount of both American lives and the lives of people in other countries, I believe President Truman and his team made the right decisions. Had the United States decided to not use the atomic bomb there is a large chance that we would have had to invade Japan and if we did this we would have lost a much greater amount of lives. There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we would no longer need to invade Japan but given Japan's history of resistance the number of casualties would have exceeded that of the atomic bombing.