tburger: AFAIK:
1. US wanted to force Japan to surrender and avoid heavy casaulties while invading Japan home islands (likely they've also saved numerous casaulties among Japaneese people which would be better for them as they intented on occupying Japan after the war).
2. They also wanted to impress/scare Stalin.
3. Nagasaki bombing had some 'aditional scientific test value' for US as the bomb was composed of different material than the one droped on Hiroshima.
Ixamyakxim: Mostly correct as far as I understand it, with the exception of the first point. Japan had effectively already surrendered and the U.S. had refused the surrender. There was not going to be any fighting for Japan.
That's not correct as you've phrased it. Allegedly there was a translation error that resulted in the bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. There was no attempt by the Japanese to surrender prior to the bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.
The point is that the US had not refused a surrender prior to dropping that first bomb, it was the second bomb where there was likely an attempt by the Japanese to surrender.
amrit9037: According to a survey around 60% of American thinks it was right decision.
Also I never saw any reference about these A-bombs in any of WWII games.
May be because it would give rise to controversy.
Considering the Kamikaze missions there was ample reason to believe that it would have been a blood bath if there had been an invasion. Well above and beyond the loss of life in those cities that resulted, Not just for the Allies coming in, but for the Japanese as well.
What people often times fail to realize when the discussion about this comes up, is that the Japanese themselves inflicted a similar level of damage to Chinese cities, just rather than having a nuke to do it with, it was tons of munitions, some of which, is probably still lying there waiting to be found.