Word: bombe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
People of the United States must let these behind the Iron Curtain know that this country would use the atomic bomb only for retaliation, Senator Ralph E. Flanders said last night in Littauer auditorium in this fall's third and final Godkin Lecture...
...contrast with his first lecture, in which he stressed the problem of an American depression as being more serious than the threat of a Russian attack, the Republican junior senator from Vermont emphasized the atom bomb as a preserver of peace, although he insisted that it should not be used "against conquered and enslaved populations...
...know, or think we know, that Russia has the atomic bomb at its disposal. We don't know how many she has. If we view the situation with sanity, we have no reason to feel that everything depends on our knowing how far Russia has advanced in her program. We do want to make sure that we can retaliate instantly and overwhelmingly...
...before the television camera, still arguing for tighter security, he also gave to the world several other U.S. secrets:1) that U.S. scientists, in trying to make a superbomb, have already made one six times as powerful as the Nagasaki "Model T"; 2) that the U.S. goal is a bomb 1,000 times as powerful; 3) that the present effort is to "find some way of detonating a bomb before the fellow that wants to drop it can detonate...
...right was a hectic U.S. peopled with angry-looking generals, an old man with a bomb, a woebegone intellectual on a fence. On the left (despite some corpses representing the buried past) was a peaceful and productive-looking Russia. In a stormy student meeting, Collins' work-in-progress was denounced as "vicious Communist propaganda." Said Collins: it was merely "what I believe to be true, based on personal and vicarious experience." On Thanksgiving, N.Y.U. officials settled the matter to their own satisfaction by clearing the sketch off the wall because of "sharp student controversy . . . without passing judgment on either...