Ralph Austin Bard
American government official (1884-1975) · United States · Died at 90
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Something wrong?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.
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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."
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