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To force the Japanese Government to surrender unconditionally saving thousands of American servicemen's lives, and possibly as many as a million Japanese lives - most of them women, children and old men - who would have died if the Allies had been forced to invade Japan.

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Q: How did President Truman justify dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan during World War 2?
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