Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States Naval Institute Proceedings. The issue led off with an essay titled "The Great Debate: 1954," written by Commander Ralph E. Williams Jr., the department's star writer. The essay's theme: the "air-atomic concept" is wrong. "The ultimate weapon is the man, not the bomb...
...hard on the American colossus not to be allowed one mistake, but it is a tribute to all that its tremendous power has come to mean to the free world. If there is some anxiety over the exact circumstances in which the United States would drop its first atom bomb in the next war it is because American genius and skill have now given that bomb-as Bikini has shown this month-the force of 'five hundred Hiroshimas' ... If the battle for . . . reasonable tolerance now being fought in the United States engages us strongly it is because...
When questioned by moderator Louis L. Jaffe, professor of Law, as to labor's failure to arouse workers against the Taft-Hartley Act, Tyler replied that labor had yet to feel the dull impact of the 1947 law. "Taft-Hartley," he explained, "is sort of a time bomb which will only go off in an atmosphere of unemployment...
...this matter, found themselves faced with a virtual fait accompli, and proposed a unified force (the beginnings of E.D.C.) as a compromise instead of a German army. The Korean War also illustrated the possible consequences of uni-lateral action. The situation that developed when General MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria resulted from U.S. failure to consult with the other U.N. powers. Britain felt that MacArthur was in complete control and was steering toward a major...
...speech from Florida about two weeks ago, Adlai Stevenson also appeared worried about the implication of Dulles' statement. Rash use of the bomb, he feared, could catapult us into the horrors of a world war. Yet if we did not use the bomb, and were not prepared to fight Korea-type actions, we might be forced to lie idle while the communists "nibbled us to death...