Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are other problems, of course, and one of them is viewpoint. Says Ways: "The two most important stories in the world right now are probably U.S.-Russian relations and the atomic bomb. The first is one of those highly controversial subjects on which everybody has strong opinions. TIME editors are not exceptions. We think that the Russians will go as far as the U.S. will let them. We do not think that war with Russia is inevitable, and we think that the best way to avoid war is by patient and firm resistance to Russian expansion-plus a positive...
These were probably the harshest words ever spoken of a dessert. But a lot of non-Americans (notably Britons) had long regarded the U.S. public's attitude toward The Bomb as callous to the point of idiocy. Although this interpretation did the U.S. an injustice, it had a certain justification. Some Americans, for instance, missed the point of Davies' tirade. Said L. K. Stephens, bakery supply salesman, who helped design and bake the cake: "We intended the cake as something...
...congratulatory messages and telegrams began to reach him at his home. He stated, however, that the award could have nothing whatever to do with the work he did for the Government, and dampened rumors that he had been one of the "silent" men behind the creation of the atom bomb by disclosing that his war work had consisted of experiments testing the effects of high pressure on steel used in armor plating. Bridgman deprecated the value of this work and said that it had been discontinued even before...
...festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
Super-Hiroshimans. Not all authorities were as pessimistic as Dr. Muller. A four-man U.S. commission was about to leave for Japan to observe the genetic effect of the bomb's radiation on the people of Hiroshima. Some geneticists believed that the next Hiroshima generation or so would show many bad mutations. But most would be eliminated by the law of the survival of the fittest. The few superior mutations would survive to improve the race...