Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Contradicted Stevenson's statement that the U.S. could always start up H-bomb tests again, if necessary, "within not more than eight weeks"; it takes the U.S. "a year or more to organize and effect such tests as those conducted at our proving ground in the Pacific Ocean"; under Stevenson's cease-test provisions "we could find our present commanding lead . . . erased or even reversed...
...This Is Madness!" Adlai Stevenson was not impressed. In his speech in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he called again for an agreement with Russia to end H-bomb tests, added afterward that 270 scientists support his position. He quoted Pope Pius XII on the fearful prospects of nuclear war ("a pall of death over pulverized ruins covering countless victims with limbs burned, twisted and scattered while others groan in their death agony").* Said Adlai: "Our arsenal of hydrogen bombs and other weapons is enough to deface the earth. Our stockpile continues to grow...
...peace, he added in Rock Island, Ill., "is not to stubbornly insist as Eisenhower does that our security lies in the deterrent effect of our lead in nuclear weapons." After all, the Russians had caught up with the U.S. on A-bombs, and "they'll do it again" on H-bombs. "What does Mr. Eisenhower propose then? That we go ahead with the development of the cobalt bomb to try to gain another advantage-or a force that can shake the earth off its axis...
...best reply to Stevenson's rootless eloquence was not the presidential report or the imprecations of Republican orators. It was an equally eloquent passage from a speech made four years ago: "Until it [the atomic bomb] is subjected to a safe international control, we have no choice but to insure our atomic superiority . . . We can never yield on the objective of securing a foolproof system of international inspection and control. And we can never confuse negotiation with appeasement...
Clicking like a Geiger counter from his own political H-bomb test, toughened by 2½ months of speeches, missed meals and one-night stands, striking out on his own after listening overlong to his managers, harried but gentle, angry but optimistic, Adlai Stevenson plunged last week into the homestretch of the 1956 campaign...