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...sentences for the atom spies are too light, and the electric chair is too merciful a death...
...only real conqueror. He says there is something wrong in a world that contains both poverty and technical progress, the reality of war and the yearning for peace. He appeals to everyone who thinks that it is probably sinful to be rich, and certainly sinful to have the atom bomb. His central thesis is Gandhi's: never compromise with evil, not even for the sake of ultimate good...
...feel that there is a kind of quantitative morality about war: it is all right to fight a little war to stop a little aggression, but it is wrong to fight a bigger war to stop a bigger aggression. (This is the same kind of logic that considers one atom bomb morally wrong and ten "conventional" bombs morally all right...
...Chamber of Commerce meeting in Springfield, Mo. saw a fleeting example of a well-known family temper. Looking at a civil defense pamphlet on the atom bomb, an insurance agent quipped: "They ought to drop one of these on Old Harry." At this, Major General (ret.) Ralph Truman, 70-year-old cousin of the President, aimed a roundhouse right, missed the agent, but knocked off his hat before the two were separated...
...Conant pointed out in February, however, the United States has lost the monopoly of the atom bomb "on which the security of the free world in no small measure depended." He also warned that in a few years "Russia may decide that the power of our strategic air force has been largely cancelled...