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...little interest in Greber's heavily accented notions, never asked a question. Next fall, when the full Greber report will be ready, they would probably put some of the questions Ottawans are already asking: 1) how much will it cost? 2) how will it stand up to an atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Ottawa, 1998 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...great Church of England, like the great nation to which it belongs, is famed for its ability to reconcile apparent irreconcilables. In 1946 the Archbishops of Canterbury and York appointed a commission to consider the great problem of our time-total war and the atom bomb. Last week their report was out-a fat, red-covered pamphlet titled The Church and the Atom. Its 130 pages of erudite and stilted prose will be presented in June to the Church Assembly for approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War & Christianity | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...atom bomb, then, ever permissible? On this one, the commission made confused sounds. It agreed "that . . . [it] is inadmissible as a means of attack upon objectives in inhabited cities." But "there would be no objection to using it against a military target (if such were found)-which could be attacked without injury to human beings; but if human beings were involved, it would be necessary to take into account peculiar properties of the bomb that appear to sort ill with the object of warfare, which is to overpower the enemy without doing more harm than necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War & Christianity | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...nation began hostilities by launching an atom bomb attack against principal cities, the commission agreed that a reply in kind would be justified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: War & Christianity | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...immediate effects of atomic bombs, the Army doctors conceded, are serious: "There is not much even a medical man can do." People who seem uninjured may die-quickly or slowly. But there is a consolation: "The threat of the atom bomb is, at least, now recognized, and we have assembled a growing store of knowledge which can ultimately be mastered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feel Better Now? | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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