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...assault was the most serious on American uniformed personnel in West Germany since a car bomb injured 20 people at Ramstein Air Base, the Air Force's European headquarters, in 1981. President Reagan was awakened at 6 a.m. and told of the bombing. Later a White House spokesman condemned it as a "shameful act." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl sent Reagan assurances that quick action would be taken "to cast light on the deed...
...governing board of the BBC. The previous week, after objections from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, the board had canceled a television documentary that featured interviews with Irish extremists, including an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher, the target of an I.R.A. bomb last October, had declared a month ago that terrorists should be denied the "oxygen of publicity...
...over, and the ghostly figures of vaporized corpses that were stenciled on the sidewalks of scores of American cities have already begun to fade. What remains is a question, the same one that has gnawed at us from the first: Did the U.S. really have to drop the atomic bomb...
...islands, Japan was deploying up to 2 million soldiers and additional millions of "auxiliaries" who were clearly prepared to defend their homeland to the death. It was easy to believe estimates that an invasion would result in as many as a million American casualties, plus many more Japanese. The Bomb offered the chance of ending the war and saving lives...
...addition, the Bomb, like any new weapon, had developed a constituency and a momentum of its own. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the charismatic master of Los Alamos, gave short shrift to those scientists working under him who urged that their creation not be used. Congressional committees, the first of them led by a Missouri Senator named Truman, had long been grumbling about the huge secret appropriations poured into the Manhattan Project and warning that the results had better be worth the $2 billion investment, which was serious money in those days. When the scientists succeeded, it became all but impossible...