Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event of a new world war, said Churchill, the West has no present means of stopping a Russian sweep through Europe. Churchill said the Russians had 40,900 tanks. It was true, he said, that U.S. planes now based in Britain could hit Russian cities and key points with atom bombs, but the Russians would then seize airfields on the French coast...
...They could, I fear, outnumber us in the air," said Churchill, "by a far larger number of machines than Hitler ever had. We would also be subject to a bombardment by rocket-propelled and guided missiles-I am not speaking of atom bombs -incomparably more severe than anything we have endured or imagined ... We are more defenseless than we have ever been and I find this a terrible thought...
...this silence? wonders Dr. Louis N. Ridenour, dean of the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, in the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Are radiological poisons ineffective? Or are they so deadly that atom-minded governments have smothered all mention of them under blanket security...
Maybe, said Pastor Powell, their willingness to let the bomb be dropped is "a little selfishness, because they have their own community at heart; maybe it is self-preservation." Said High-School Teacher Bernard Scott: "What's the use of having these atom bombs if they're not to be used? It's just like having a new car in the garage and letting it be idle. What we ought to do is to notify the Russians that if they don't get back north of the 38th parallel by a certain date...
...scientific research: "The Russians would love to have us use up our stock of atom bombs [in Korea...