Word: a-bomb
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...That's mainstream thinking among American historians, but in Japan, where the bombings' horrific aftermath is an integral part of its postwar identity, Kyuma had just talked himself out of a job. He was swiftly vilified by all parts of the political spectrum, including fellow Cabinet members, for appearing to suggest that the atomic bombings could be viewed as historically justifiable, and not solely, as Japanese are taught, as an unforgivable war crime. Kyuma had touched the third rail of Japanese politics, incurring the wrath of the influential A-bomb victims' groups. Though Prime Minister Shinzo Abe briefly supported...
...This morbid fantasy just became a little more plausible. Pariah state North Korea's purported test of a small A-bomb spotlighted the morbid fantasy of our age: the small-scale, survivable Armageddon...
...FEEL THAT WAY? I THINK THAT'S GENUINELY HOW YOU FEEL. I don't buy into doom scenarios. I've lived through all that, living under the shadow of the A-bomb and the H-bomb, without getting discouraged or hopeless or frantic. It might just be a kind of mindless optimism, sort of more genetic than thought controlled. I do tend to trust this country to come up with the right answers eventually. And I tend to trust the people in government, even though I didn't vote for them. So in that way, I'm not a pessimist...
...older morality, still dominant in the U.S., and in most other western lands, finds no moral problem in the H-bomb that was not present in the Abomb, none in the A-bomb that was not present in the mass bombing of cities, none in these that is not present in war itself, and no grave problems in war that are not present in the basic question of the permissibility of force in any circumstance. This does not mean that the traditional morality does not meet a host of appalling questions in the whole area of when and how force...
...atomic weapons (which would have been easy to check in the goldfish-bowl U.S., but impossible to check in uninspected Russia). In November 1951, at the U.N. meeting in Paris, the U.S., France and Britain changed their proposals in the light of the growing importance of the A-bomb as a balance to Russia's land armies. The new proposal called for 1) a step-by-step scaling-down of atomic and conventional armaments together, 2) continuous inspection, and 3) international control of the atom...