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...holding that land forces will play only minor roles in future wars. To make the circle complete, the Air Force dismissed Navy claims that its supercarriers can carry atomic warfare into "the enemy's front yard" by describing the big ships as among the most vulnerable of all A-bomb targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Psychological Warfare | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...later wrote: "[He] so impressed me with his alertness, grasp of problems, and personality that I never thereafter lost sight of him." In 1944 he became Arnold's chief of staff in the Twentieth Air Force, helped direct the unprecedented, long range B-29 raids, including the first A-bomb drops on Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: AN AIRMAN-BOSS FOR NATO | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Order of Bottle. In Seattle, Zumie Davis was fined $200 for illegally selling liquor, despite his explanation that the 41 fifths of whisky and 24 pints of wine found in his bedroom were to be used only in case of an A-bomb attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...evidence indicates that physical abnormalities like those in the children of Hiroshima A-bomb victims are not genetic mutations but rather the results of injuries to the mother during pregnancy, according to Theodore H. Ingalls, associate professor of Epidemiology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Denounces Fears Of Freaks From Radiation | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

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