Was dropping the atomic bombs justified? Why or why not?

Dropping the atomic bombs was necessary because otherwise the war would have taken much longer to end and hundreds of thousands of American lives would have been lost in the process. Americans wanted to end World War II as soon as possible, so they used the atomic bomb as soon as it was ready. Japan would not surrender, so on August 6, 1945, they dropped it on Hiroshima, killing or wounding 180,000 people. The Japanese would still not surrender, so America dropped another bomb on Nagaski on August 9th. Finally on August 14, the Japanese surrendered. Although, it is tragic that so many civilians had to die, many more Americans, Japanese soldiers, and some civilians would have died if the war had dragged on for months or years more. The Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill wrote, "The decision whether or not to use the atomic bomb to compel the surrender of Japan was never even an issue. There was a unanimous, automatic, unquestionable agreement around our table..." The world wanted a fast end to the war, and it got it with the use of atomic bomb.