# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-austin-bard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:30:57.652Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-austin-bard"
name: "Ralph Austin Bard"
slug: "ralph-austin-bard"
description: "Ralph Austin Bard was a Chicago financier who served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1941–1944, and as Under Secretary, 1944–1945. He is noted for a memorandum he wrote to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in 1945 urging that Japan be given a warning before the use of the atomic bomb on a strategic city. He was \"the only person known to have formally dissented from the use of the atomic bomb without advance warning.\""
tagline: "American government official (1884–1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ralph_A._Bard_cph.3a40857.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1884-07-29"
deathDate: "1975-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             1.956521739130435
  historical:           5.676818666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ralph Bard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "رالف أوستين بارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A2%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "رالف آوستین بارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "ラルフ・バード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Austin_Bard"
    title: "Ralph Austin Bard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Austin_Bard"
    title: "Ralph Austin Bard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1483338"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump