Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow chooses competition because it does not regard U.S. possession of The Bomb as much of a danger. Russia does not think the U.S. will use The Bomb unless a complete clash between the U.S. and Russia occurs. Any crisis that would lead to such a clash would be of Russia's making, and Moscow could always back down and cool off the crisis in time. Meanwhile, the Russians will continue their efforts to get enough atomic bombs...
...Council have weaved through a maze of procedural and technical arguments. The U.S. press and public got the idea that the two countries were not far apart on the basic question of whether the atom should be controlled. Behind this U.S. error lay the assumption that Russia, lacking The Bomb now and the industrial capacity to compete with the U.S. in future manufacture of it, would find control preferable to inferiority. But the men who make Kremlin policy, tougher-minded than Americans think, apparently did not reason that...
There it is. Gromyko is not talking about procedural technicalities, although he still tosses around glittering dust in the form of proposals to "outlaw" The Bomb (a la Kellogg-Briand...
...Implacable Struggle. On the atomic bomb, as on every other vital issue, Moscow is governed by Lenin's dictum: "Victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, persistent, desperate life and death struggle: a struggle which requires persistence, discipline, firmness, inflexibility and concerted will power...
...General War of 1939-45 for readers who had already lived through the General War of 1914-18, and it was recast for republication on the morrow of the ending of the second of these two world wars within one lifetime by the invention and employment of a bomb in which a newly contrived release of atomic energy has been directed by man to the destruction of human life and works on an unprecedented scale...