Question

The year is 1945 and the Japanese have not yet surrendered. You are President Harry Truman. Your advisers have informed you that forcing a Japanese surrender through continued conventional fighting may cost as many as one million American lives. You have another option: dropping the newly developed atomic bomb on Japan, thereby killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese. Which option do you choose? Why?

Answer 1

We all know the real history here. But I'm no war commander or advocate for such so I would say fight until a surrender rather than direct murder. Although, ironically that is what happened.