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Under these conditions, Russia was unlikely to accept. Nor was the gesture counted on to alter Russia's truculent hostility toward any and all U.S. atomic proposals. But to the world, the offer was a small, unmistakable earnest of U.S. willingness to share the atom's benefits...
...Alamos, N.Mex., the atomic Forbidden City, the physicists described a gentle atom bomb. It contains enough "fissionable material" to vaporize its surroundings. But instead of exploding, it smolders as quietly as a furnace banked for the night...
Essentially, the tame bomb is a "pile" like the original uranium pile at the University of Chicago. But uranium needs slow-moving neutrons to make its atoms split. Thus, a uranium pile is made up of small rods of uranium embedded in a large mass of graphite. Plutonium is different: its atoms can be split by fast neutrons. So a pile made of plutonium needs no graphite or other "moderator." The "Nagasaki model" atom bomb is a plutonium pile that reacts so quickly that it blows itself (and the neighborhood) to bits in millionths of a second...
...people everywhere are asking for bread and are given stones. Let the leaders of state and church teach and act upon the two great commandments on which hang all the laws, and we shall have a moral force more than the equivalent of tens of thousands of atom bombs...
...Earth's Disorder. One of the more trenchant discussions of the subject has appeared in the French magazine Esprit, written by its editor, Personalist Philosopher Emmanuel Mounier. Like Easton, Mounier believes that neither the atom bomb nor any technical invention can have the slightest significance for the Christian interpretation of history. God's ending of the world and man's ending of it would be as different in essence as the setting of the sun and the snuffing of a candle...