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Hiroshima changed a lot of things-basically, irreversibly. But man's ways of thought or thoughtlessness were not easily changed. Hundreds of statements began: "The atomic bomb proves. . . ."; or "In the atomic age we must. . . ."; or "The atom has settled the issue between. . . ." The rest of the sentence usually turned out to be what the speaker had believed long before there was an atomic bomb...
Before & After. General Marshall used the atomic bomb as an argument that future national defense would require large ground forces. General Arnold pointed out that the first bomb had been delivered by air. Admiral Nimitz said: "The atom bomb has given new importance to sea power...
...ignorance, frivolity and rivalry the world played with the awful atom. Last week the U.S. Congress became the focus of the world's hopes and fears. The U.S. had the bomb; had it the genius to lay down an initial policy which would grow into man's domination of atomic power...
There was no real defense against the atom bomb. There was no precedent for handling atomic energy. There was no sure and safe policy. Congress would just have to do its frightened best. The rest of the world would act accordingly...
There were only a few divided votes, and on most of these the great opponents, the U.S. and Russia, were in the same camp. Both favored a U.S. city (probably San Francisco) as the permanent seat of U.N.O. Subcommittees even discussed control of the atom bomb without fissioning into factions...