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...best informed women in the U.S. on international affairs" wrote a letter to J. M. Roberts Jr., foreign affairs analyst of the Associated Press. She had been all in favor of appeasing Russia. But now: "We should start an 'unprovoked' war, use atom bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...sentiment," an outgrowth of political prudery that refuses to face the facts of politics. In This Week Cartoonist Ray Helle neatly ticked it off with this sentiment: two parrots are sitting on a perch; behind them is a cat; says one parrot to the other, "Stop worrying about the atom bomb and keep your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Modern man knows a great deal about the nature of the atom. But he knows almost nothing about the nature of God, almost never thinks about it, and is complacently unaware that there may be any reason to. Theology, the intellectual system whereby man sorts out his thoughts about faith and grace, enjoys much less popular appeal than astrology. With its "devolutionary theopantism" * and "axiological eschatology,"* theology is jaw-breakingly abstract. And its mood is widely felt to be about as bracing as an unaired vestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith for a Lenten Age | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...crude, primitive atom bomb that wrecked Hiroshima had the force of only 20,000 tons of TNT. The Nagasaki and Bikini bombs, not much improved, are called "Model Ts" by atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Progress | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...atom bomb has "long since ceased to be a secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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