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...experts estimate that its air-dropped device weighed only 20,000 to 30,000 lbs. If that estimate is correct, the Russians could easily refine the device into a 100-megaton warhead for one of their giant and crude ICBMs (known to U.S. intelligence men as "the Beast") and send it over a reduced range of 3,500 nautical miles-enough to reach...
...second-largest Soviet explosion did not test a "device" but a full-fledged warhead that yielded some 25 megatons and weighed only 10,000 lbs. It .could be hung on the Beast and sent for a full range of 6,000 miles. By comparison, the biggest U.S. missile yield is less than 10 megatons for Titan...
...look at it, Communism is no match for Democracy. Democracy gives man his dignity, whereas Communism bridles him like a beast. Put the two ideologies side by side before the people and they are bound to choose Democracy...
...subject by reaching beyond a superficial resemblance to express its life movement and very breath. It is said that one of the Chinese masters would seclude himself in his room, drink freely of strong wine, remove his garments and creep about the floor, imagining himself to be the very beast he wished to paint. Then, his imagination stirred, he would seize his brush and paint the tiger or dragon, having identified himself with the essence of the subject. Whether the Chinese painter meditates quietly on his subject or applies himself violently to the task, the criterion...
Despite these outbursts against the United States, Russell seldom receved praise from the Kremlin. Moscow radio once called him "this philosophical wolf, whose dinner jacket conceals all the brutal instincts of a beast." This blast greeted his advocacy of the Baruch Proposal, the American scheme for internationalizing all nuclear armaments. In Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare (1959) he remarks, "I thought, at the time, that it would be worth while to bring pressure to bear upon Russia and even, if necessary, to go so far as to threaten war on the sole issue of the internationalizing of atomic weapons...