Ralph Austin Bard
Military Person
1884 – 1975
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Who was Ralph Austin Bard?
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 Japanese 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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- Born
- Jul 29, 1884
Cleveland - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Princeton University
- Died
- Apr 5, 1975
Deerfield
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on July 23, 2013
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