Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact," he continued in his characteristic high-pitched voice, "that we have a long-range bomber that can fly from any base in the world, attack targets in the range of 4,000 miles and return home." It was obvious that "workers live near factories and that if you bomb the factories, you may bomb the people . . . Any great injury you can inflict upon the morale of that nation," he added, "contributes to the victory . . . We are all aware of the awful penalty if we lose the war." As for morality-"war itself is immoral...
...Balance of the Bomb. When Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...
Challenged, he explained next day that his conclusion was drawn from the official report on the 1945 Hiroshima bomb, which scientists now consider a model-T bomb. The report said that "flash burns were protected by clothing and buildings within less than 3,250 ft. from the blast." The north-south runway, Tatom declared, is 6,840 ft. long. Rejoined Georgia's Congressman Carl Vinson laconically: "I, personally, would rather be in Georgia...
When he was appointed head of FAO in 1945 he called the new organization "the answer to the atomic bomb." In recent years he has sought a new answer in internationalism, became president of the Movement for World Federal Government and a sponsor of World Citizen Garry Davis (TIME...
...window, smashed by a German bomb in 1941, was placed in the chapel where John Harvard was baptized...