Letter from Prime Minister Clement Attlee to President Harry S. Truman
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25 September, 1945.
E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D)
KOGAN TO GUSTAFSON 12272
By NETTHE ' NARS Date 4.17.25
TOP STORET
RECORDS
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Dear m President
Ever since the U.S.A. demonstrated to the
world the terrible effectiveness of the atomic bomb I have
been increasingly aware of the fact that the world is
now facing entirely new conditions. Never before has
there been a weapon which can suddenly and without
warning be employed to destroy utterly the nerve centre
of a great nation. The destruction wrought by the
Germans through their air fleet on Warsaw and Rotterdam
was startling enough, but subsequent attempts to do the
same to London were defeated though without much to spare.
Our own attacks on Berlin and the Ruhr resulted in the
virtual destruction of great centres of industry. In
Europe the accumulated material wealth of decades has
been dissipated in a year or two, but all this is not
different.
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