How did President Harry Truman justify the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities?

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How did President Harry Truman justify the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japanese cities?

A. He predicted that a conventional US invasion of the mainland would never succeed.

B. He thought that Japan was on the verge of developing its own nuclear bombs to use against the US.

C. He believed that it saved the lives of many US soldiers who would have died in protracted Japanese invasion.

D. He felt that it was an appropriate revenge for the lives lost during the bombing of Pearl harbor by the Japanese

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