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Truman Persuasive Letter

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Dear President Truman, I am writing to you about dropping an atomic bomb in Japan that could potentially kill people. I understand that making a decision like this can be difficult which is why I have a few suggestions on why you should attack Japan with an atomic bomb. Japan wanted certain pacific islands such as Pearl Harbor and so they attacked on December 7th, 1941.

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