The classified document was submitted to the Interim Committee, a group appointed by President Truman to advise him on the use of the bomb, in June 1945, one month before the Trinity test and two months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the Franck Report-named after Nobel prize–winning physicist James Franck because he chaired the committee that produced it-the scientists recommended that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon against the Japanese. The events of early August 1945, which changed the course of human history, might have been prevented had the Truman administration heeded the advice offered by seven prominent and prescient Manhattan Project scientists. This week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The front page of the edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which featured the declassified version of the Franck Report, principally written by Eugene Rabinowitch, the co-founder of the Bulletin.
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