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Bartlett and Alsop say that in the days between the discovery of the missile bases and the Kennedy announcement of a blockade, Ex-Comm was split between "hawks" and "doves"-those who wanted to invade Cuba or bomb out the missile bases, and those who urged caution. The "most hawklike of the hawks," they write, was Dean Acheson. One of the doves was normally belligerent Bobby Kennedy, who, said the Post, thought that "an air attack against Cuba would be a Pearl Harbor in reverse, and contrary to all American traditions...
Last week Physicist Edward Teller, the dour genius who led the U.S. in its race to develop the H-bomb ahead of the Russians, reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors...
...Tocsin sentiment is moving away from the positions and preoccupations of the traditional ban-the-bomb peace groups," Adam M. Hochschild '63, vice-chairman of Tocsin, said last night...
...First Bomb. At Los Alamos, Bohr, whose face was familiar to just about every physicist alive, was introduced with transparent secrecy as Mr. Nicholas Baker...
Though he probably did as much as any other man to ensure the success of the Manhattan Project, once the first bomb was built, he would not wait to see the first test explosion at Alamogordo. For the rest of his life, all nuclear weapons were objects of horror to him. His fondest hope was to find a way to abolish them...