Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Popular Cause. Some of this information, spread before Congress last week, was new; some was old. But lumped together it made a haunting specter. There was no question of the puniness of present U.S. strength (outside of the Bomb) alongside the picture of Russian power...
...great Church of England, like the great nation to which it belongs, is famed for its ability to reconcile apparent irreconcilables. In 1946 the Archbishops of Canterbury and York appointed a commission to consider the great problem of our time-total war and the atom bomb. Last week their report was out-a fat, red-covered pamphlet titled The Church and the Atom. Its 130 pages of erudite and stilted prose will be presented in June to the Church Assembly for approval...
...atom bomb, then, ever permissible? On this one, the commission made confused sounds. It agreed "that . . . [it] is inadmissible as a means of attack upon objectives in inhabited cities." But "there would be no objection to using it against a military target (if such were found)-which could be attacked without injury to human beings; but if human beings were involved, it would be necessary to take into account peculiar properties of the bomb that appear to sort ill with the object of warfare, which is to overpower the enemy without doing more harm than necessary...
...should Christian civilization leave itself at the mercy of an aggressor who does not care where his bombs fall? The commission bowed to the ancient doctrine of "military necessity." If a nation which renounced The Bomb would be helpless before an enemy that did not, "then retention of the atomic bomb in a nation's armory is justifiable on the ground of necessity and indeed . . . obligatory. We must add that it might well prove to be a powerful deterrent also...
...nation began hostilities by launching an atom bomb attack against principal cities, the commission agreed that a reply in kind would be justified...