The US was smart to drop those atomic bombs. In 1941, Japan dropped some bombs on Pearl Harbor. Then, the US used code breakers to figure out that Japan was going to try and take Midway but we met them there and bombed them for revenge. Then we took back some other islands that Japan took. Japan would not surrender on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. They even used Kamikazes. President Truman decided that we would lose a bunch of troops trying to take those 2 cities and so he decided to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs named Fat man/Little boy. With those 2 bombs roughly 225,000 people died. If the US would have fought for those 2 islands we would have a lot more american deaths.
