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TIME, July 31: "Said Dwight D. Eisenhower, who thought the [atom] bomb might be considered for matériel targets in Korea, but not against human beings: 'We're trying to stand before the world as decent, just, fair people, not as judges to exterminate those who oppose...
...enlisted, was as awed and quiet as any other rookie of 19. But Wesley T. Shirai was already a veteran of one of the century's major horrors. On Aug. 6, 1945, a boy of 14, he was walking along a street in Hiroshima when the atom bomb went off; the right side of his body, which faced the atom flash, still bears its scars...
Behind the low-rolling smoke of battle in Korea looms the most terrifying of all war clouds: the topless mushroom of the atomic bomb. Will the Russians make an atom-bomb attack on the U.S.? If it comes, what is the defense? Is there any defense? Last week the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense issued a 456-page volume, The Effects of Atomic Weapons* which gives the first official answers to some of these questions. In it are the ABCs of atomic disaster which every civil-defense planner-and every dweller in a target area-should know...
...breathing space, thought Churchill, was provided by American superiority in atom bombs. If, while that superiority lasts, "we can create a trustworthy system of defense ... we shall at least have removed the most obvious temptation to those who seek to impose their will by force upon the free democracies." Churchill made it clear that Western Europe's defense must include West Germany...
...other hand, Dr. Emil Fuchs, Leipzig professor of religion and father of British Atom Bomb Spy Klaus Fuchs, got off a telegram to the U.N. explaining that everything would be hunky dory if the West would just stop disagreeing with Russia...