Truman: The Lesser of Two Evils

At the end of the Second World War, the United States gave the green light for the use of the atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing a minimum of 129,000 to 226,000 Japanese civilians. The bombs lit up the skies in a sea of nuclear fire and fallout which sent a single message to the emperor of Japan, Michinomiya Hirohito, to unconditionally surrender to the United States and to bring an end to the bloody fighting taking place on the Empire of the Rising Sun. For his approval for the use of the atomic bombs on the Empire of Japan, President Harry Truman was heavily criticized for being a warmongering leader of the free world and that he killed hundreds of thousands of lives for no reason but just to intimidate the rising threat of the Soviet Union into submission by fear as to not spread their deadly ideology. To this day, Truman's actions are condemned by everyone who has heard about his choice to drop the bombs on Japan to end the war but I'm here to state that history is only speaking in half truths about his actions during that time. During the Second World War, over 285,000 American citizens answered the call to duty to serve their country in it's time of need against the Japanese in the Pacific and on the Japanese side 6 million troops enlisted to fight for the ever growing Japanese Empire. By the end of the war, 111,606 American lives were lost against the Japanese Empire and over 1 million lives were lost on the Japanese side. In order to prevent more American lives from being lost in the Pacific, Truman had to make a choice from the lesser of two evils: let the war continue on without an end in site because the Japanese military would never surrender in a conventional war and lose hundreds of thousands of more American lives in the Pacific and millions of more Japanese in the bloody war or display that they cannot win through a weapon of mass destruction and lose less lives in the process. Truman decide to bring the young men home, he dropped the first bomb and then asked the Japanese to surrender, they didn't believe the reports of an entire city disappearing from just one bomb so he dropped a second one and only then did they surrender. So the question stands, did he make the right call? In my opinion, he did but that is only my simple opinion.