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Did any of the scientists who had worked on the Manhattan project later write a letter to Truman asking him not to use the bomb that they had helped create?
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Albert Einstein, the same man who wrote to Roosevelt previously and urged its development.
"When Germany fell and there was no threat of equivalence, he urged Roosevelt not to use the bomb, but FDR died and the letter was forwarded to Truman, who never read it."
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