Another reason why we believe the U.S. was justified in dropping the bombs was the desire to save American lives. Even though our soldiers risked their lives by dropping the atomic bombs, it saved many more American lives in the end. After the events of the atomic bombs took place, Emperor Hirohito was in shock and after several days he finally announced a recorded radio address to the nation announcing Japan's surrender. Japan underestimated the power of our military and in the end, they knew that if they fought back we would fight back even harder. Therefore, we ended up protecting Americans and possibly saving thousands of lives by preventing another attack.
The last reason that the U.S. thought it was necessary to drop the atomic bombs was to prove to the Soviets that the U.S. had a strong military. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor with 353 Japanese fighters, 18 planes, and bombers and torpedos that blew up 4 of our U.S. navy battleships. The U.S. wanted to fight back with a higher power which brought on the Manhattan Project kept in New Mexico. This was a top secret led by the physist J. Robert Oppenheimer involving 600,000 Americans. Without testing the U.S. didn't know the power of this bomb, but we felt that it was the right thing to do to prove we weren't weak and we did not want to give up. After the surrender of Japan, the Soviets realized that our military was a lot stronger than they expected.
