many more - plus hundreds of thousands of USA soldiers as well fighting a battle they didn't need to.
That's not the reason to drop the bombs, you need much more than that to reach such a conclusion.
18,000 rebels on one side tried pick a fight with 25,000 government soldiers to prevent a surrender even after the second city had been levelled, is a reason for thinking that Japan was still only borderline ready to surrender at that point, and therefore that it was unlikely to have been ready before this point.
I don't know which bit you're making that specific complaint about, but at this point I don't care.