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Fighting men leaped into the Great Debate. One wounded corporal went a step beyond Senator Paul Douglas' suggestion that the generals be permitted to use the atom bomb on Chinese troops. From a hospital in Japan, he wrote that we should atom-bomb Manchuria right away...
...Atom bomb tacticians believe that the best place to explode a bomb is high above the target, where blast and heat do the most damage. Since the radioactive fission products of such "air bursts" are carried upward and dissipated harmlessly, civil defense workers, with no deadly contamination to worry about, could go straight at the problems of less subtle death and destruction...
Modern Times. In Washington, D.C., the Post Office Department opened a letter addressed to Santa Claus: "Please send me two atom bombs, a couple of pistols and a good sharp knife...
...Professor Robert M. Hawkins of Vanderbilt University's School of Religion thought it a military rather than a moral question. "To me the atom bomb is just another weapon . . . Any weapon is inhumane, and I would rather be blown up with an atom bomb than bayoneted...
...Atom Bombers. While such big-city papers as the New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the San Francisco