Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brainy, blue-eyed wonder, will become Gruenther's Deputy for Air Forces in Europe; in his new role, he will be responsible for organizing, training and deploying all NATO's air forces from Iceland to Turkey so that they can be brought to bear-probably with atom bombs-on any part of Europe (because of the Abomb, an American has to have this job). For two years Norstad was SHAPE'S leading atom-warfare expert...
...midst of Truman's New York stay, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy announced that his Investigations Subcommittee may invite the ex-President to testify in a new investigation of alleged atom spies. Reporters hurried over to see what Truman had to say. Said Harry Truman : "What I could tell you, you wouldn't print-therefore ... no comment...
...Federal Civil Defense Administration has had the thankless job of trying to make civilians take precautions against the effects of atomic bombing. Civilians have not been responsive, chiefly because of a widespread conviction that no reasonable precautions will do much good. This attitude might be changed by persistent, frank discussion of the ways of atom bombs. Last week FCDA began distributing an elaborate booklet called Operation Doorstep, which is less than frank...
FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...
Symington: Well, I think they might know that . . . with the premise that the Russians have enough atom bombs to make the attack-and certainly nobody questions that they'll have those bombs within twelve months-then, under the condition that the bombs are properly placed, the first attack would destroy at least one-third of our industrial capacity and kill around 13 million people...