Author:Ralph Austin Bard

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Ralph Austin Bard (1884–1975)

See biography. An American financier and government official, Bard was Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1941 to 1944 and Under Secretary from 1944 to 1945. As a member of the Interim Committee, appointed to advise President Harry S. Truman on the use of the atomic bomb, Bard wrote a short memorandum to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson urging that Japan be given a warning before the use of the atomic bomb on a Japanese city. — Excerpted from Ralph Austin Bard on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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• Memorandum on the Use of S-1 Bomb

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