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OCR Page 1 of 3MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
202 FIFTY-SIXTH STREET WEST
NEW YORK 19, N. Y.
August 12, 1959
Dear Mr. President:
Thank you very much for the explana-
tion which I shall pass on to the people
who asked me.
As you know, I have always said that
you had no choice but to use the atomic
bomb to bring the war to an end. For a
time I was disturbed at our having used it
in Nagasaki but after being in Japan and
seeing the defenses and talking with one of
our representatives who had been a prisoner
of the Japanese and who explained that un-
less there had been a second demonstration
the Japanese would have felt they could de-
fend themselves which would have resulted
in the destruction of the whole of Japan
and the loss of millions of our own men,
I realized that you had this knowledge and
that you could make no other decision than
the one you made. I have since written this
publicly a number of times. I would give a
great deal, however, not if we could come to
an agreement for stopping the whole use of
atomic energy for military purposes. I know
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