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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Szil%25C3%25A1rd_petition/crzpG8fE">Szilárd petition</a> - unsuccessful petition against use of the atomic bomb, signed by 70 <a href="/facts/Manhattan_Project/gtg8yRK2">Manhattan Project</a> scientists in July, 1945.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Ralph_Austin_Bard/IDJ7wegv">Ralph Austin Bard</a> - containing description of memorandum by Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard urging warning to Japan before using the atomic bomb.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<p>The text of the Franck Report is available at these online locations:
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<ul><li><a href="https://fas.org/sgp/eprint/franck.html">Federation of American Scientists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/ethics/issues/scientific/franck-report.htm">Nuclearfiles.org</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130623234101/http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/ethics/issues/scientific/franck-report.htm">Archived</a> 2013-06-23 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/ManhattanProject/FranckReport.shtml">Atomicarchive.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dannen.com/decision/franck.html">Dannen.com</a></li>
<li>Internet Archive (<a href="https://archive.org/download/FranckReport/Franck%20Report%201945%20original.pdf">original copy</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/download/FranckReport/Franck%20Report%201945%20trancsribed.pdf">transcribed copy</a>)</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Wittner, Lawrence S. (1993). The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 0-8047-2141-6. <a href="0-8047-2141-6" target="_blank">0-8047-2141-6</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Wittner, Lawrence S. (1993). The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 0-8047-2141-6. <a href="0-8047-2141-6" target="_blank">0-8047-2141-6</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Schollmeyer, Josh (January–February 2005). "Minority Report". www.thebulletin.org. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2009-08-04. <a href="http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/c44g1634464675j7/?p=b09a34e5df624f6ba81f091a260ea38f&pi=9" target="_blank">http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/c44g1634464675j7/?p=b09a34e5df624f6ba81f091a260ea38f&pi=9</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Howard Gest, The July 1945 Szilard Petition on the Atomic Bomb: Memoir by a signer in Oak Ridge Archived 2006-03-07 at the Wayback Machine. bio.indiana.edu <a href="http://www.bio.indiana.edu/~gest/HGSzilard.html" target="_blank">http://www.bio.indiana.edu/~gest/HGSzilard.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Wittner, Lawrence S. (1993). The Struggle Against the Bomb: One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953. Stanford Nuclear Age Series. Stanford University Press. pp. 25. ISBN 0-8047-2141-6. <a href="0-8047-2141-6" target="_blank">0-8047-2141-6</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Frank, Richard B. (1999). Downfall: the End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Penguin. p. 260. ISBN 0-14-100146-1. <a href="0-14-100146-1" target="_blank">0-14-100146-1</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>"The Uncensored Franck Report". NuclearSecrecy.com. 11 January 2012. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120131084853/http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/01/11/weekly-document-9-the-uncensored-franck-report-1945-1946/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120131084853/http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2012/01/11/weekly-document-9-the-uncensored-franck-report-1945-1946/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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