What would you advise Prez Truman if you were alive during the atomic bomb?

What would you tell Truman?What would you advise Prez Truman if you were alive during the atomic bomb?
If you drop atomic bombs on Japanese cities, you will kill alot of non-military civilians.What would you advise Prez Truman if you were alive during the atomic bomb?
This was probably the greatest moral dilemma of the last century.





It is quite simple, dropping the bomb means killing innocent women and children etc.





Not dropping it means a prolonged war and hundreds of thousands of dead US soldiers in trying to pacify mainland Japan. This would also inevitably include the killing of innocent women and children.
I think the words of General Eisenhower say it nicely:





~~~DWIGHT EISENHOWER





';...in [July] 1945... Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act. ...the Secretary, upon giving me the news of the successful bomb test in New Mexico, and of the plan for using it, asked for my reaction, apparently expecting a vigorous assent.





';During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face'. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude...';





- Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380





The military was against the use of the bomb, it was dropped for political reasons, not military ones. It's use was unnecessary, the war was over.





http://www.doug-long.com/quotes.htm
Drop it.





You will save millions of lives both Allies and Japanese by just killing a couple hundred thousand Japanese civilians.





Also fire bombing raids were way more deadly then both atomic bombs.
I would tell President Truman to use the Atomic Bomb it would save to lives.
Use every available weapon to kill Japanese until they surrender or cease to exist.