Was Truman Right Or Wrong

I don’t believe it was acceptable for the U.S. to drop the atomic bomb. Because of Truman, over 70,000 innocent people died. Had he not chosen this path, there would have been no civilian casualties. But I can also see where he was coming from. He wanted to save American lives.
Truman believed he was doing the right thing. He had to make a decision based on what had happened. He was trying to gain a victory in the pacific by getting the Japanese to surrender. His option was that or the ‘or else’ threat. The Japanese called it as a bluff. What could America do that would make them want to give up and claim surrender? That would have embarrassed the nation too much. His alternative was to bomb them. And not just a ‘London blitz’ kind of bomb. I’m talking about an atomic bomb. Truman was okay with sacrificing innocent lives if it meant that his army men and Americans would live and not be killed instantly. He wanted to protect every last American life he could-Military or innocent. Americans were worth saving to him.
He didn’t consider that he would be killing so many people in so few days. All he was thinking about was winning the war and saving Americans.
Truman was trying to save the lives of American army men, when their job is to get shot at. These men knew when they signed up that everyday has a chance of death. That’s the life they picked, and Truman was changing that. His thoughts were to save military Americans by killing over 70,000 innocent lives. Women. Children. Elderly. All incinerated on the spot when the bomb dropped. There is a quote by an eye witness account that said: “I lay there buried alive under our house when the bomb hit our city. The bomb started great fires. The fires came nearer and nearer to us as workers tried to reach us. "Hurry!" they cried to one another as the flames came nearer. At last the workers reached us and pulled me and my mother out from under everything, before the flames reached