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> - Drop the first bomb in the ocean in front of an envoy of observers and give Japan a week to deliberate their response Seventy scientists on the Manhattan P
by Findecanor 1y ago
> - Drop the first bomb in the ocean in front of an envoy of observers and give Japan a week to deliberate their response
Seventy scientists on the Manhattan Project signed a petition [0] to president Truman about doing something like that before actually using the bomb, but the petition was intercepted and Truman didn't even hear about it in time.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd_petition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd_petition