Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week probably the most important chapter of that long career came from Stimson's pen, published in Harper's Magazine under the title The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. In it Stimson disclosed that: 1) he, more than any other man, was responsible for the decision to wipe out Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2) the two bombs dropped were the only ones which the U.S. had in store at the time. He made the record explicit and complete...
...interim committee with a panel of four scientists was set up to keep the President advised. On June 1 the committee resolved that 1) "the bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible, 2) used on a dual target-that is, a military installation or war plant surrounded by or adjacent to houses and other buildings most susceptible to damage, 3) used without prior warning...
Resistance would be fanatical. It would be necessary to leave the Japanese Islands "even more thoroughly destroyed" than Germany. Continued B-29 fire raids would wreak more damage than any atomic raids. But "the atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon...
...Mexico test occurred as the Big Three conferred at Potsdam. An ultimatum, which did not, however, hint at the bomb, was delivered. Japan's premier, Suzuki, replied haughtily that it was "unworthy of public notice...
...haste to consign the airplane to obsolescence, Sir Arthur harrumphed that the atomic bomb does not even necessarily have to be carried by anything resembling a missile (much less aircraft). "There is no reason why the parts of an atomic bomb . . . should not be brought in bit by bit by seemingly innocent people and assembled anywhere where cover can be found, in an embassy, attic, lodging or in a ship in harbor." Many atomic authorities would agree. But his theory that "once a weapon is used it becomes obsolete" is a bit sweeping considering the long bow (1,000 years...