Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...During the war I helped bomb the people of Europe. We left cities in flame and people torn and dead. That was war. But what of the children in those cities, and what of the men in the planes which went down? Do I not owe them something? Does not every human being stand condemned for their death...
Turning to the world problems of security accentuated by the unleashed powers of science represented by the atomic bomb Conant concluded his address by calling for intelligent people to become oriented to the world in which we live. "We've got to live with the problems of the destructive power of modern science. . .Publication of the Lilenthal report gives hope we can meet this greatest challenge to mankind. On this hope we must build as courageously and wisely...
...University on the progress of its General Education plan, the adequacy of its adjustments to veteran influx, and its proclaimed intention to admit more "healthy, normal extrovert" students; it queried the United States on its frantic return to normaley, the United Nations on its Big Four domination and atom bomb fumbling...
Said Sheppard: "This nation is in possession of scientific factors which place it in an enviable position. The scientific factors at hand would result in devastation equal to, if not greater than, the atomic bomb. Remember, there are different kinds of devastation...
Skeptics suspected that the Navy, fighting doggedly against unification of the services and jealous of the Army's atomic bomb, might be tooting its horn too loudly. But there was still a fair chance that the Congressmen's scuttlebutt was based on well-hidden fact. Two novel and dreadful weapons have long been discussed, in whispers...