bombings on japan, were the really needed Options

[Mr. Psychotic]

do u guys think the 2 bombs dropped on japan during WW2 were really needed?
i say no because they just killed innoc3nt people in those 2 citys and it left a perment mental damage on my grandma (im japanese)
so what do u guys think

[winsome]

Truman was under time pressure to keep Stalin's forces out.

At the time of the bombings, the Soviets and the US were still on the Allied side together. Stalin had no interest in staying in Japan, he was bribed to fight there in the first place.

Stalin entered the war in Japan at the behest of Roosevelt and Churchill at the Yalta conference in Feb. 1945 (they promised him the southern half of Sakhalin island, which Russia lost to Japan in 1905, if he would help them against Japan). Truman became president in April 1945 when Roosevelt died. He did not come to blows, as it were, with Stalin until after Japan surrendered and it became glaringly obvious that the Soviets were disregarding the free election policies discussed at Yalta and the German occupation policies agreed to at Potsdam.

Of course there was tension between the Soviets and Americans at the time, Stalin had always been suspicious of his western allies, but the atomic bombs were dropped to get a surrender from the Japanese, not to stop the advance of Soviet allies.