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It is a fact that Japan was beaten, and was trying to negoiate an acceptable surrender. This, even you agree to.
Dropping atomic weapons on Japan at a time they were trying to surrender did not save lives, it cost lives. Diplomacy would have ended the war then... dropping the bombs (to ensure that Japan surrendered totally to the US before Russia could grab the North Island) was an act of violence that resulted in many more deaths than would have occured if diplomacy was used,
As an example of violence ending violence, it is a false example, because in this case the wat would have been ended by diplomacy, the atomic weapons were merely a brutal exercise in violence with no obvious peaceful end.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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