Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. ... It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. . . . What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history...
...Collectors. Reparations were keyed to economic control. The Potsdam conference adopted a plan drawn up by a Big Three commission in Moscow, providing that the bulk of reparations was to come out of Germany's present industrial equipment. By these removals, Germany's basic industrial capacity would be reduced to a calculated point - one at which the German living standard would be no higher than that of the average European...
...world wondered at the delay in trying war criminals. The Big Three wondered too. On this point they found no basic differences of view, told their subordinates on the War Crimes Commission in London to hurry...
Compulsory military training can have but one aim: to build up a large reserve of trained soldiers. The basic problem of compulsory military training is: will it work, and is it necessary...
...Schools. But finding a more subtle and promising device was easier said than done. On aims, and on basic, long-range strategy in the Pacific, two schools of diplomats and military men were fighting their own war in Washington. Until recently, the cleavage cut through both the State and Navy Departments...