Not an American life, but all humans in general. Before we can decided this we must consider what is important to us as a people. Maybe more in the sense of what is important to our leaders. The decision to drop the atomic bomb was just that.Atomic. It coast millions of lives, lives across the globe. August 6th of 1945 the was day the first bomb was dropped on Japan, but in no way was it the first bomb to be dropped. Months of preparation, and numerous test bombs were dropped on your, mine, and our soil. The very same soil that we were fighting to defend. These war weapons did not just kill the enemy, but our own flesh and blood. Our government ran tests over and over again in so called isolated areas, which is most cases were not so isolated. The very same radiation that was used to murder the women and children in Japan, was now in our air, in our water, and in our soil doing the exact same here. Now the question arises why would such horrible weapons be used in people rich areas. Correct this was a time of war, but we were not fighting elderly men, or pregnant women, so why was the bomb not targeted at more of a military facility. Could there be an underlying reason that our all powerful government incarcerated cities not bases? Were these attacks on Japan in anyway good long-range decisions? Times do change, but the value of a human life should not. Today our great nation takes pride defending it's people from harm, the same harm that the United States of America inflicted on Japan. Our Government had other options, and knew that we could use them. There was no need to bomb either of the Japanese cities, it was by no means a good long-term decision, in fact we as a nation are fighting the same use of chemical warfare today. .
The two atomic bombs were dropped on August 6th and 9th of 1945 on the two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. Truman, our nation's president, said that we had no other options other then to use the S-1(the atomic bomb.