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...that they have the atom bomb, a lot of Americans talk boldly about what they will do to the Russians. But the Americans didn't approve when Germany fought the same battle. This, too, you can answer, but it takes more time...
...churches' present great role, said Dulles, is to keep the U.S. from dehumanizing itself by becoming too preoccupied with such things as "atom bombs and jet bombers, super flattops and snorkel submarines." It is the Christian responsibility "to preserve in our nation human sympathy and compassion such as Jesus had when He saw the multitudes. If our churches perform that task . . . then perhaps it may be said to our nation: 'Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace...
...thing all meteorologists are agreed about: in spite of a widely held popular notion, man's tinkering with atomic energy has nothing to do with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...
...give interviews is suicidal. The statement ascribed to me [from a San Francisco Chronicle interview] about the "muskets at Cressy" being "as effective in their time" as the atom bomb burdens me with two absurdities. The first was my fault; I should have remembered, even in the excitement of being interviewed by two fair women, that there were no muskets at Cressy. The second was due to forgivable abbreviation in the press; what I said was that there had been as much advance in military destructiveness between Cressy (1346) and 1939 as between 1939 and Hiroshima; and that the increased...
Part of a Moody Institute series including "Voice of the Deep" and "God of Creation," "God of the Atom" has been shown to church and school audiences averaging more than 85,000 a month since its release a year...