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...French fight a kind of war within their own means. They accept substantial American aid but insist on deciding what kind and determining its uses, and have an irritating way of making only minimal public acknowledgment of it. In an age of atom and jet. there is no thought of the atom bomb and not a jet in the country. Over the only existing live war against the Communists, the weapons are those of World War II: U.S.-made B-26s. Bearcats and Corsairs. Talk of American air armadas to a French air commander, and he answers that he hasn...
...take the declaration which was made by the 16 powers in relation to Korea ... It has been stated there that, if aggression should be resumed, the reaction would not necessarily be confined to Korea . . . That does not mean necessarily that there will be an effort made to drop atom bombs on Peiping or upon Moscow. It does mean that there are areas of importance to the aggressors in that vicinity which . .-. would no longer be what General MacArthur called a 'privileged sanctuary...
...hard on the American colossus not to be allowed one mistake, but it is a tribute to all that its tremendous power has come to mean to the free world. If there is some anxiety over the exact circumstances in which the United States would drop its first atom bomb in the next war it is because American genius and skill have now given that bomb-as Bikini has shown this month-the force of 'five hundred Hiroshimas' ... If the battle for . . . reasonable tolerance now being fought in the United States engages us strongly it is because...
...tissues. From the obscure technical lan guage they used, only another virologist could have divined the explosive import of their work. In fact, Enders' discovery was to a polio vaccine (and to much other health-saving virus research) what Einstein's cryptic E = mc2 was to the atom bomb...
Scholarly Commissioner Smyth (the "Smyth Report," 1945), whose service dates from the start of the wartime atom bomb project, has seen atomic energy grow from a gleam in an oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...