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I'll explain, briefly. Japan was prepared to surrender with the only condition being that the Emperor went unharmed. This was back in April of 1945. The US knew this and rejected it because, well, we wanted to punish them for Pearl and such. The horrible thing is that after Japan was allowed to surrender, the US actually left the Emperor unharmed and used him to help stablize and rebuild the nation.
The point I was making above? Dropping the bombs saved no lives and was done after months of Japan attempting to surrender. It was not for some greater good at all. "Monsterous or not, it ended the war didn't it?" No, it didn't.
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