Many believed that the use of the atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to save American lives and to shorten the agony of the war. American policymakers and many historians believed that dropping the bombs on the islands of Japan have saved tens of thousands of American lives, the morality of its use was defensible. However, “if, as many critics suggested, the bomb was not needed to end the war or to save lives, then its morality seems highly questionable” (Walker). Indeed, the United States was not in need to use the atomic bombs to end the Pacific war. Oh clarifies this in his article by stating that “Japan would have surrendered even if the bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and