Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a heartening number and variety of people dared to look directly at the atom's horrid glare. Rose-tinted goggles were still preferred, but at least the world was no longer hiding its head in the atomized dirt of New Mexico and Hiroshima...
Mumbling Through. Russia's haughty silence on the bomb was broken by A. Sokolov of Moscow's New Times. He took a crack at "atom democracy." meaning those in the U.S. who thought a monopoly on atomic bomb production would further the U.S. conception of democracy...
Canada's soldier-scientist. General Andrew G. McNaughton, chairman of the Joint Canadian-U.S. Defense Board, said cheerily that defenses against the atom bomb were "already clearly in sight." At the London conference U.S. diplomats had been reluctant to talk about the bomb. When the subject came up in private conversation, they would say something like: "Of course, the world knows that the U.S. would never. . . ." Such sentences usually trailed off into inaudible mumbles...
...Congress would hear plenty from airmen about the battleship before the shape of the postwar Navy was finally set. It would also hear from the visionary pundits who would argue that this was the age of the atom bomb and the pushbutton war, and that there was no point in having a fleet...
There was, in dreadful truth, such a thing as the atom bomb. But strategists went on planning armies and navies as if it did not exist. Diplomats bickered away without ever mentioning it. To plain people it was a horror shoved in the back of the mind on the vague assumption that somebody would work out a way to subdue it for man's good...