Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make repeated mention of the "vague hopes" and the "moral confusion" of Mr. Lilienthal, Dr. Oppenheimer, and other Americans who share their views regarding the use of the thermonuclear bomb. By "vague hopes" you appear to mean the hope that another war can be avoided, and by "moral confusion" the belief that it is wrong to use such destructive power as the bomb affords...
...hope is not at all vague, and the morality not at all confused. The necessity that may some day force us to use the bomb will not make it right, and until war is actually upon us we shall surely be wrong in not pursuing wholeheartedly every decent means to its avoidance...
...book was mistaken as an autobiography, and I returned too late to correct the error. Later I consented to have it called "a mental autobiography," which it is; but there were some incidents in the story that never happened to me physically, like the explosion of the Anarchist bomb...The Anarchists looked down upon me for being only a Socialist. The Socialists in their turn excommunicated...
...could tell immediately the true nature of the object. It might be a genuine dud, i.e., an atomic bomb that did not explode as intended. It might be a delayed-action bomb, or it might be a harmless casing deliberately filled with inert material. The people of the attacked city, unless quickly reassured, would be apt to be as panicked by a cheap dummy bomb as by an expensive real one that might explode any second into a white-hot ball of fire a couple of miles in diameter...
...Satellite, from social mobility to Soviet medical care. It has filled files with thousands of questionnaires, interviewed over 2000 refugees, and in the process opened up new ideas on the strong and weak points of Russian life. This work will never have the devastating, headline-making effect of a bomb, nor will it even have so direct a result as the work of propaganda men in Radio Free Europe. The job of these men is collecting information about a country enveloped in a great silence, and thus help determine where this country is susceptible...