I'd say that in times of war, the goal is to win. The war continuing longer would cause far more deaths than ending the war quickly. More importantly for the US, the war ending in victory is more important than basically any other consideration, given what would happen if they lost.
That doesn't mean dropping those bombs was the right thing to do, neither militarily or morally. But at the end of the day, that's what war is, and people thinking differnetly is why Germany was able to conquery several countries in WW2 and trigger a war that caused 50million deaths.
That doesn't mean dropping those bombs was the right thing to do, neither militarily or morally. But at the end of the day, that's what war is, and people thinking differnetly is why Germany was able to conquery several countries in WW2 and trigger a war that caused 50million deaths.