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...first time since The Bomb burst, a great government cracked down on its talkative, uneasy atomic scientists. The government was Britain's; the crack-downers were Ernest Bevin and his temporary collaborator, Winston Churchill...
...Echoed Bevin: "His Majesty's Government cannot surrender either their power or their duty in the field of government to any section of the community. . . . When you select people to enter into the study and research of these things, and they know of and have, indeed, entered into an understanding to observe not only the Official Secrets Act but the honor of their own country, then that ought to be observed and respected in carrying out their duty...
...scientists had been noisier than their British brothers. But all had one characteristic in common: evangelically sure that something must be done, they were lost when they faced the political questions of what to do and how to do it. The atom, as Churchill and Bevin said, had not relieved statesmen of the responsibility for doing statesmen's work...
...week when Britain's Bevin and Churchill adopted tactics of extreme tough ness (see below), tough Molotov was rela tively relaxed. His whole speech testified to the U.S.S.R.'s awareness of its limitations...
Churchill and Bevin had said that Russia should not have the atomic bomb now. Well, Molotov did not ask for it. He simply said that the Russians would get it for themselves...