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Then Douglas recommended the final step which gave his proposal the force of an Abomb: the U.S. should serve notice on Russia and the world that the next act of Communist aggression means...
...Atomic Bomb: The President told the Prime Minister that he would let him know whenever he thought the U.S. might have to use the Abomb. This was a part victory for Attlee, who had been shocked by the President's recent remark that the U.S. was considering use of the bomb. He got an assurance that Britain would be notified of any such intention...
...were in Dutch's own words "obsolete before they got off the drawing board." It is now producing the F-86D and F-86E, and in Engineer Kindelberger's view, they are obsolete too. When the Navy wanted a long-range bomber big enough to carry the Abomb, it turned to Kindelberger. The result was the AJ-1, with one turbojet and two reciprocating engines...
Civilian Defense. The planning program that lags most is civilian defense, partly because planners only began taking it seriously when they learned last September that the Russians had an Abomb. No one has even decided whether cities, states or Federal Government should pay for staffs and equipment. No city in the U.S. is ready for an A-bomb attack-though test programs are under way for Washington, D.C., Chicago and Seattle. Warned_Symington in Detroit last week...
Means for Suicide. To guess at all is starry-eyed, for atomic energy still means the Abomb, a world of terror, not of promise. Uranium fission is only a beginning. The building-up of hydrogen into helium, if it could be achieved, would theoretically yield vastly more energy-which could also be used for bombs. The quantum theorists, roaming in abstract ecstacy among their lacy equations, long ago entered a world where matter and energy are almost indistinguishable. They talk matter-of-factly of turning all of a sample of matter into energy. A single pound of anything, unfrozen...