Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever had." Apartments stand empty and houses are offered for sale at what realtors described as "almost ridiculously low prices." The European rightists are further dismayed by the inauguration of President John Kennedy, remembering that he spoke in the Senate for a free Algeria. To show their feelings, a bomb was planted outside the U.S. consulate in Algiers "in honor of President Kennedy...
...Drop of Ink. From his rigorous criticism of such peace mechanisms as exist, one might expect Jaspers to lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty that all will be dropped or that every last man will perish. If humanity is blackmailed into totalitarian slavery out of fear of the bomb, there is also no certainty that in tortuous, labyrinthine ways, man would not eventually recover his freedom...
...Rule of Reason. The first thing men must do, says Jaspers, is to stop not thinking about the bomb. "Creative fear" will stimulate saving thought and action. Since the menace is apocalyptic, the remedy must be radical and all-embracing. Jaspers proposes nothing less than an inner transformation of man that would consist of being true to his own best self. To skeptics who deny that a change in man is possible, Jaspers insists that it has happened historically "with the Hebrew prophets, with the Greek poets and philosophers, with the Hellenistic and Christian regenerations of the first centuries...
Reason would undoubtedly help man cope with the bomb, but the human situation is complicated by another monstrous threat-totalitarian rule, as embodied by Russia: "By one, we lose life; by the other, a life that is worth living." The confrontation of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., each bomb-laden, has led to panaceas, abstractions and frauds in the quest for peace. Peaceful coexistence is one such fraud, according to Jaspers: "Peace never comes from coexistence, only from cooperation." What happens under the formula of coexistence is that "one side is hiding its will to eventual world conquest by coercion...
Bainbridge, a nuclear physicist noted for his work on the mass spectroscope, will leave in April for two weeks at Leningrad. Director of the Alamogordo Atomic Bomb Test (1945), he will lecture and conduct seminars on mass spectrometry. Bartlett has done research in kinetics and the mechanism of organic reactions...