Atomic Bomb Justified Dbq

In discussion of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one controversial issue has the dropping of the atomic bombs being justified. On the other hand others believe that there were other ways of getting Japan to surrender and it was not justified, the only way we could get Japan to surrender was to invade them. Our strategy was to island hop until we got to Japan. Many more lives were at steak when doing that. Not only would just Americans would die, but a lot of the Japanese would have died as well, and the death toll would have much greater. 199,000 deaths came after the dropping of the atomic bombs. However, many American lives were saved, what the Japanese did to Pearl Harbor, and the treatment of our American soldiers while

on their land. I believe that the atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Boy, That were dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified.
One of the major reasons for dropping the atomic bomb was to save and protect American lives.

According to document A, President Truman believed that it was his duty to protect and save American lives And that's exactly what he did. If we did not go through with the atomic bomb, then we would have had to get Japan to surrender another way, yeah we could have put up an economic blockade and continuously bombed them like Admiral William Leahy wanted to do in in document A. Or we could have invaded and lost many more lives in the process, the war would have dragged on costing more American lives and more money for the United States.
The Japanese government believed that the only way to solve its economic and demographic problems was to expand into its neighbor’s territory and take over its import market, mostly pointed at China. To put an end on that the United States put economic sanctions and trade embargoes. We believed that if we cut off their resources and their source of federal income than they would have no choice but to pull back and surrender. But the
Japanese stood their ground and on December 7,1941.The surprise attack on the Americans that destroyed or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded at Pearl Harbor(document

F).
The Geneva Convention is a set of rules that were put in place after World War One that protected people who are sick and wounded of the armed forces on the field, wounded, sick, and shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea, prisoners of war, and civilians. Japan did not abide by this set of rules during WW2. American and Philippine prisoners of war were forced to embark on a 65 mile march to a prison camp along the way they suffered intense heat and harsh treatment from the guards, thousands perished the Bataan death march(document G). The Japanese treated the POW very badly(Document H). They performed medical experiments on the Prisoners of war(Document I), and they did not feed them and many American soldiers died.
In total the atomic bomb killed 199,00 people in japan(Document E) and injured several thousand burning them and just tore them up(document J,K,L), The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary and justified. Because of the American lives saved during the process, to get back at them for the mistreatment of the Americans that lost their lives because of them. The whole outcome of the war would have been completely different many more casualties would have been at stake. The japanese would have not stopped until they were either victorious or until they were not able to fight any more. Therefore, I believe that the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified.