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"Ever since I have been in touch with this program, I have had a feeling that before the bomb is actually used against Japan that Japan should have some preliminary warning for say two or three days in advance of use" (Dannen, "Bard Memorandum" 1). If the men in charge of the "Manhattan Project" had listened to men like Ralph A. Bard, the Undersecretary of the Navy, many deaths could have been prevented.
On April 12, 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage and Harry S. Truman became the president. After the defeat of Germany on May 7, 1945, there were pressures on both the leaders of Japan and the U.S. to end the war (Boyer 553-554). The two nations were involved in a bitter fight which began with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and included American air raids with incendiary bombs on the major cities of Japan. Although thousands of Japanese were without food and homes, Japan refused to surrender.
By mid-July two events occurred......

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