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...basic, underlying, never-varying tradition of [our] republic is insistence upon . . . the worth of the individual. . . . It seems true in society, as in nature, that the greatest energy is created by releasing the power of the smallest unit. In one case, the individual; in the other case, the atom...
Stalemate. The U.S. holds three massive military advantages: the atom bomb; undisputed control of the sea; industrial power which can be turned to war with a speed and efficiency that no nation can duplicate. It also has 14 million battle-trained Army & Navy veterans; their availability for battle service will drop rapidly with the passage of time. In five years, less than half will be usable...
...manpower reserves, Ike Eisenhower could guarantee a stalemate, at least, if war came now. Even though parts of Europe or Asia might be occupied, there is no strategic bombing force that can reach the U.S. and return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential was begun...
This group listened to some 200 witnesses, including psychiatrists, scientists, soldiers, students, teachers, youth leaders, then drew up a hair-raising preview of World War III as a basis for their recommendations. In the preview: atom-bombing planes flying at supersonic speed; chemical and bacteriological warfare; destruction laid down overnight that would equal the destruction in Germany after three and a half years of saturation bombing...
...seem to lie in the involuted thinking of Henry Wallace's misty theories. Te solve U.S. domestic problems, he had proposed a 10% reduction in prices, increased wages out of the "swollen profit structure." To bridge the widening gap between the U.S. and Russia, he proposed turning U.S. atom bombs over to the U.N. with no strings attached, a ten-year Russian reconstruction program underwritten by the U.S., internationalization of strategic areas...