Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried the party's national leader, stocky Solon Low: "Sufficient atom bombs to destroy a city the size of New York could be carried in the back of an ordinary automobile. It is conceivable that a group of technicians coming into Canada, with their cars immune from examination, could bring in dangerous things...
...moral to be drawn from the story as originally printed, and the one the Sun and other papers did draw, is that the Atomic Energy Commission is unfitted for the job with which it is entrusted. Facts brought out in the sequel rather completely vindicate the AEC at the expense of the Army and corroborate the judgement of Congressmen who placed atomic energy in the hands of civilians. Yet the same group that fought the Atomic Energy Commission and the confirmation of its chairman, David E. Lilienthal, is still trying to put the atom back in the protective custody...
...manpower reserves, Ike Eisenhower could guarantee a stalemate, at least, if war came now. Even though parts of Europe or Asia might be occupied, there is no strategic bombing force that can reach the U.S. and return-today. Meanwhile the U.S. could smack the enemy's homeland with atom bombs within 48 hours, order the Navy and Marines into action to seize advance bases from which to mount an aerial attack while the job of rebuilding the nation's war potential was begun...
Russia's proposals indicated that she still preferred to go her own currently bombless way rather than submit to real international socialization of the atom. In a U.N. where Russia can be outvoted, Moscow fears real control would be used to block her own research and development. Free enterprise, so long as it is Russian, seems much better...
...says Colonel McCutcheon, produces at least one new weapon, which usually appears too late to get in its full effect. The airplane, used in World War I, dominated World War II. The most promising new weapons of World War II were the German V-1 and V2. (The atom bomb, in the military man's book, is not a complete weapon at all, but only a super-explosive, to be lugged to the target by aircraft and perhaps, later, by directed missiles...