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...Europe. So strongly was he bent on early U.S. invasion of the European continent that he once irascibly proposed that the U.S. move its war to the Pacific if Churchill delayed the invasion any longer. In 1945, Henry Stimson wrestled with a deeper problem. Should the U.S. drop the atom bomb on Japan? It should, he advised Harry Truman, in order "to end the war in victory with the least possible cost of [American] lives." His judgment in this would long be argued, on the grounds that Japan was already near to collapse...
...steely as cars in a parking lot brings back the initial awesomeness of Nazi arms. The ferocity of the advancing Japanese is reflected in the gaunt faces of U.S. soldiers captured at Bataan. Color pictures of London under the blitz are reminders that it takes less than an atom bomb to turn a city into a hell. The slowly swelling might, the losses and final victories of the Allies are recorded in pictures that sometimes hurt and sometimes lift the heart...
...have facility with these facts and these weapons which the West too often lacks. An outstanding example of their acumen is the Stockholm Peace Appeal; confirmed Communists and political innocents alike have signed this broad manifesto, aligning themselves with its eloquent plea for peace and the banning of the atom bomb. The Soviets not only collect credit for the Appeal but also claim, often very effectively, that all the signers are on their side...
...part of the London blitz, he said, but he had never lost confidence even then that the Allies would eventually win. Now he felt no such confidence. The U.S., he told his visitors, "is in far greater danger than at any time in its history." Russia could deliver the atom bomb "anywhere in this country," and the U.S. might lose a World...
...Angeles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Evans Dean assured reporters that the U.S. stock of atom bombs was undoubtedly larger than Russia's but added, "That's not much comfort, because 10, 20 or 30 bombs is far too many for anyone to have...