Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world crisis continued; but the first shock of U.S. realization had subsided. The U.S., remembering the danger signals before World War II, mulled over the deadly parallel. By last week, some cocktail-party pundits were beginning to mutter: "Why not drop the bomb on Russia...
...Girl, the Bishop & the Bomb. This decade of struggle for the survival of freedom might or might not include a war between the U.S. and Russia. Even if there is no war, the struggle will be more "total" than World War II. The stakes are bigger, the danger is greater, the battlefronts are broader. Not all the weapons are military. Last week, for instance, brought two stories (one about a girl in Prague and the other about a bishop in Sarajevo) which illustrated a force more important to the security of the U.S. than possession of the atomic bomb...
...keeps rolling over Europe and Asia, erasing faith in freedom, the Reds will be strong enough to fight a war with the U.S.; they may be strong enough to win it. If the Communists should get control of Europe and China and hold them, they might beat the U.S., Bomb or no Bomb...
...Navy-Air Force quarrel had been brought out into the open last January, when Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz in his swan song proclaimed: "The Navy of the future will be capable of ... delivering atomic bombs from carrier-based planes." The carrier-admirals for whom he spoke saw the Navy's new bombers operating off 80,000-ton carriers (for one of which Forrestal has approved plans). From these floating airbases, they claimed, they could bomb the enemy from any point in the world. The Air Force quietly seethed...
...There will be angels in Heaven for all eternity because of this moment. . . . For five centuries men have tried to make the world fit for heroes. The result is that angry individualism and angry collectivism stand growling at each other. ... A generation of dwarfs is looking to the atom bomb and V-bombs that may destroy all humanity...