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Alfred Nobel had similar regrets.

It's interesting that Oppenheimer talked Edward Teller out of presenting a petition to Harry Truman to not drop the bomb unless Japan had fair warning and the terms of their future be laid out. 70 scientists from other labs signed it, but it was suppressed for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd_petition
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