Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perplexed U.S. citizens trooped to Washington last week. They were civilian defense directors of many states, mayors representing some 60 million Americans, leaders of women's groups. They had been summoned to the capital to discuss plans for civilian defense if their communities should be hit by atom bombs. They were met by NSRB Chairman W. Stuart Symington and his brother-in-law, James J. Wadsworth, who is acting federal director of civilian defense...
...case of atomic warfare with Russia (which will come just as soon as Russia has a good stock of atom bombs), Washington, D.C. will be the safest place in this country . . . Stalin is no fool; with the one exception of Winston Churchill, he is the smartest man in the world today. He knows he cannot trust his closest associates in the Kremlin, but that he can depend on plenty of assistance from [Washington...
...people in the city would have a specific job in the army of civilian defense. Many more would have to help out on a moment's notice. The biblical injunction to love thy neighbor was being forced on men by man's own unneighborliness. Communism and the atom had posed a problem of total war in which civilians were totally involved...
...best propaganda for peace I have seen. Not that Stalin and his confreres are not already aware of these facts, but . . . TIME'S Sept. 4 issue will be read avidly by one and all. Without question, General LeMay and his B-36s and our atom bombs are the principal deterrent keeping Russia from direct war. Which means that if the Soviets have the atom bomb ... in finished and deliverable condition . . . they have mighty...
...More Denial. The present-day effectiveness of "military security" (e.g., during construction of the atom bomb) has made the public suspicious of all official denials. What sort of new, fantastic wonders may be concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...