The United States was morally wrong to drop the atomic bombs on Japan to end WW2.

The problem is that while the Emperor may have been Willing to surrender, their Generals were not willing to surrender, and even after the dropping of the first bomb were still militarizing forces. The Japanese Emperor, did not have the authotrity to, by himself, end the war. He was about as useful as the Queen of England. He had high regard, yet military decisions were left primarily up to their high ranking leaders. For the same reason they had kamikaze bombers, Japanese held the Ideals of defending their mainland. The Generals just hours after the first bomb hit had started mobilizing cities and towns of people to "defend the mainland" for an impending attack. In that culture, suicide is praised as a honorable way to die, therefore the kamikaze bombers, and soldiers who were willing to commit suicide just to take one American life. The Japanese Generals, did NOT care about ANY lives, they cared less about the sanctity of human lives than those who commit abortions (although that is a debate for another day). The Generals sent out orders that POWs would be killed when they were returned, for their treasonistic acts. It was not until we dropped the SECOND atomic bomb, that the Japanese emperor had enough support by a few of generals (some of the generals STILL insisted to press on) to convince the people to drop their weapons and surrender to the US. The Japanese had already lost the war. The war was won at Okinawa, that victory proved to the World that Japan would crumble, yet, it was still unsure how many more lives were going to be lost in the process. In the sense of defending their mainland. Invading Japan, would be like invading the USA. There would be an enemy under every blade of grass. A IED around every corner, the Japanese would commit suicide just to take out one US soldier, and taking the whole island every battle, for every hill would be like Okinawa. This is why a land invasion would have been incomprehensible, and would"ve lost millions more lives than the bombs. The argument that states we were speaking of a treaty, well we may have been talking about a treaty, but the beginning stages of negotiations, are never pretty. The early negotiations wanted the allied blockade removed, the Emperor is restored more power than he had before the war. The US would also have to allow Japan to have rights to nuclear warfare if they could build it themselves, as well as lifting all trade embargo. This was what was offered by the Japan before we dropped the two bombs. They were completely unrealistic terms, and outrageous to allow Japan to poses these weapons of mass destruction. Also, in addition to the emperor not being treated for war crimes, they wanted all but one of their Generals pardoned(The general who led Pearl Harbor, they knew that was a loosing battle) Also they wanted all of their POWs released. They then wanted to seat General MacArthur on trail for war crimes, which would be an absolute insult to the American people, as well as our military. The biggest problem is that the Japanese, while defeated were NOT ready to surrender. They were prepared to fight to the death, to defend their land, at all cost. Going back to the initial prompt the question is of the Morality of the decision. The dropping of the bombs was the most Moral solution because it was the most sure way to end the war while loosing the least amount of lives. If we had chosen to pursue any other ways then both America, and Japan would have lost more lives. It is estimated that a land invasion would have lost a million lives (Japanese, British, American, and all POWs in Japan). If we had left the blockade in place and simply used it to pressure Japan into surrendering they would have lashed out, attacking out ships, causing loss on both sides, however, more Japanese lives would have been lost due to starvation, which is much more inhumane than dying instantly by a bomb. I ran out of room to enter my references, so if you message me.