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In the space provided for each document, take notes on important facts and ideas from the documents that provide support for your position and/or provide support for alternative views about what should be done with the atomic bomb.
Document A : Unanimous resolution of the League of Nations Assembly, Protection of Civilian Populations Against
Bombing From the Air in Case of War, League of Nations, September 30, 1938
Document B : Appeal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Aerial Bombardment of Civilian Populations, September 1, 1939
Document C : June 6, 1945 Secretary of War Henry Stimson Diary Entry
Document D : July 2, 1945 MEMORANDUM ON THE USE OF S-1 BOMB [Atomic Bomb], Secretary of War Stimson to
Pres. Truman

Document E : Walter Brown [Assistant to Secretary of State James Byrnes], Diary entry July 24, 1945
Document F : Minutes of Meeting held at the White House on Monday, 18 June 1945 at 1530 [meeting included Pres.
Truman, General George Marshall, Secretary of War Stimson and others]
Document G : Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, Memorandum of Conversation with General George Marshall May
28, 1945
Document H : Memorandum from J.R. Oppenheimer to Brigadier General Farrell, May 11, 1945

Document I : Memorandum by J.R. Oppenheimer to Pres. Truman, "Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear
Weapons," June 16, 1945
Document J: MEMORANDUM ON THE USE OF S-1 [Atomic] BOMB from Ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy to the Secretary of the Navy, June 27, 1945
Document K : COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF ESTIMATE OF THE ENEMY SITUATION (as of 6 July 1945)

Document L: The Franck Report, a report to the Secretary of War, signed by seven prominent nuclear physicists, June 11, 1945
Document M: Leo Szilard Petition to Pres. Truman, signed by 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project, July 3, 1945
Document N: Harry S. Truman, radio address (August 9, 1945)