Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Church of England, like the great nation to which it belongs, is famed for its ability to reconcile apparent irreconcilables. In 1946 the Archbishops of Canterbury and York appointed a commission to consider the great problem of our time-total war and the atom bomb. Last week their report was out-a fat, red-covered pamphlet titled The Church and the Atom. Its 130 pages of erudite and stilted prose will be presented in June to the Church Assembly for approval...
...atom bomb, then, ever permissible? On this one, the commission made confused sounds. It agreed "that . . . [it] is inadmissible as a means of attack upon objectives in inhabited cities." But "there would be no objection to using it against a military target (if such were found)-which could be attacked without injury to human beings; but if human beings were involved, it would be necessary to take into account peculiar properties of the bomb that appear to sort ill with the object of warfare, which is to overpower the enemy without doing more harm than necessary...
...nation began hostilities by launching an atom bomb attack against principal cities, the commission agreed that a reply in kind would be justified...
Washington had come to the conclusion that the public is far too jittery about the atom bomb. Said Colonel James P. Cooney of the Army Medical Corps : "If a bomb were dropped on one of our cities tomorrow, mass hysteria would probably cause the unnecessary loss of many lives." In soothing vein, the Surgeon General's office this week issued a statement with a cheery title: "Army Doctors Say Hysteria Need Not Follow Atom-Bomb Explosion." Some of its reassuring points...
...immediate effects of atomic bombs, the Army doctors conceded, are serious: "There is not much even a medical man can do." People who seem uninjured may die-quickly or slowly. But there is a consolation: "The threat of the atom bomb is, at least, now recognized, and we have assembled a growing store of knowledge which can ultimately be mastered...