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...U.S.S.R.," said Nikita Khrushchev, "cannot remain indifferent to what is happening in the Near and Middle East in the immediate vicinity of its frontiers . . . We know that the U.S.A. has atomic and hydrogen bombs. We know that you have an Air Force and a Navy. But you well know that the U.S.S.R. also has atom and hydrogen bombs . . . and ballistic rockets of all types, including intercontinental ones...
...World War I Navy aviator, bossed the big Foreman & Clark men's clothing chain from 1937 to 1953, was G.O P. national finance chairman until he resigned last week. As Navy Secretary, he sped the fleet into the age of seaborne missile armaments and atom power...
...disarmament agreement-we do not need Russia, nor do we trust her word. She can hurt only herself by her failure to cooperate. Here only actions would count, and all could evaluate those as we go along developing peace under law. An idea can be more powerful than any atom...
...case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malmö the city shelter is used as a ballroom; of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium for cremated parishioners...
Speaking for himself, Lewis Strauss left behind his own assessment of his job to guide his successor: "The atom is amoral. The only thing that makes it immoral is man. We are making bombs because we hope to discourage the use of bombs against us by a government that doesn't make any pretense of morals...