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…showed last 75 words of 534 total…After the issue was ordered on July 25, Truman wrote in his diary, "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world." The least and the most of that he could do, based on the fact that he was using the bomb, was issue a warning against Japan so that some lives could be saved. "It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made useful" -Truman