In your own opinion, was trumans decision to use atomic bombs against japan justified? why or why not?

At the time, the United States was the first and only country to have access to nuclear weapons thanks to research done in Project Manhattan. The US surrounded the Japanese islands and  had the option of an all-out invasion of Japan, or drop the atomic bombs. The Japanese have a fierce military history and culture of fighting with death being a more desirable option than surrender which brings dishonor to those soldiers defeated. Honorary suicide, kamikaze, killing oneself in the face of adversity were highly documented Japanese incidents throughout WWII that proved the Japanese do not mind losing high casualties in the face of defeat. An invasion of the Japanese islands would involve millions of Japanese and American casualties, as Japan being an archipelago would involve several different amphibious invasions that would see a greater destruction over the country with more cities and land being destroyed in comparison to two bombs being dropped on two cities. For these reasons, the atomic bomb dropping was justifiable at the time as it lead to fewer deaths in comparison to an invasion that would be more costly and time consuming.

John adams was referring to how the real revolution, in his opinion, was the one in the mind of the colonists which turned them against the british and what they were doing in the colonies. people negatively influenced by british taxes, idealists, thinkers, and frontiersmen would be likely to support the revolution, even before lexington, because they were either ideologically opposed to the british empire's actions in the colonies and/or somehow lost out in terms of money, property, and/or opportunity because of the empire's policies and actions.