Franck Report

The Franck Report of June 1945, named for James Franck, recommended that the US either a) keep its atomic discoveries secret for an indefinite time, or b) develop nucleonic armaments at such a pace that no other nation would think of attacking first from fear of overwhelming retaliation.

External links

Text of Franck Report: http://www.dannen.com/decision/franck.html http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/HISTORY/H-07f.htm

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http://www.fas.org/sgp/eprint/franck.html

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http://www.nuclearfiles.org/redocuments/1945/450611-franck-report.html

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• Minority Report by Josh Schollmeyer, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2005 (vol. 61, no. 1), pp. 38-39.