J. Robert Oppenheimer stifled a petition by 70 scientists beseeching President Truman not to use the atomic bomb. Read it here.

Leo Szilard and other Manhattan Project scientists sent a petition asking President Truman not to drop atomic bombs. Oppenheimer opposed the petition.

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