Word: a-bomb
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What Truman had to say to I.N.S. Correspondent Robert Nixon was startling. Asked about Russian atomic-bomb strength, the ex-President answered: "I am not convinced the Russians have achieved the know-how to put the complicated mechanism together to make the A-bomb work. I am not convinced they have the bomb...
...into a change of heart or internal collapse-while actually, after six years of containment, Communist power is greater than ever before; 2) that the H-bomb, or at least the little that the world knows about it-will dissuade the Communists from being Communists-any more than the A-bomb prevented the conquest of China or the Korean...
When it hews to fact, Above and Beyond has documentary validity. And its final sequence, pieced out with newsreel shots of the Hiroshima bombing, has the impact of epochal drama. But unfortunately, Producers-Directors-Writers Norman Panama and Melvin Frank have combined their awesome A-bomb subject with a grade B Hollywood plot. Marital misunderstandings keep cropping up between Colonel Tibbets and his wife (Eleanor Parker) because of his dedication to his job and the secrecy attached...
...these inner fires of elan. In the years after World War II, it had parried the persistent attempts of Army brass (including Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency, it had won the right to rebuild from its postwar nadir of 67,000 to a ceiling of 400,000 men, organized in three divisions and three Marine air wings...
...A-bomb or not, nothing can deprive the corps of its pride in itself and its past, and its confidence that those are the best guarantees against an uncertain future. Explained a World War II platoon leader at Camp Lejeune last week: "The only way I can describe it is like this: I was in three actions in the Pacific. I never had to look behind...