Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alone, the United States grapples with the problem of the atomic bomb. Thus far our legislators, deaf to the warnings of the leading scientists, have shown no inclination to permit international control. They give tacit credence to Winston Churchill's bland assurance that "no one sleeps less soundly in his bed" because the United States possesses the atomic bomb. Serenely, they overlook the millions who scarcely touch their beds as they labor night and day to reduce the margin of military supremacy now possessed by this country. Nor will many men anywhere sleep soundly so long as this greatest...
Accusing the United States of being "too old fashioned in its thinking on the atomic bomb," Payson S. Wild, associate professor of Government, demanded recognition of the "qualitative and revolutionary changes in our position," and the immediate need for an international atom control commission, in his Tuesday lecture to the 400 students of Government...
...world balance of power has been upset," he declared. "In five years, any moderately large nation will probably have the capacity to produce the bomb. No nation will be safe. No longer will there be any discrepancy between the three super-powers and the rest of the world. We are all small nations...
...Sovereignty today means nothing. That the United States wants to project its sovereignty by keeping the 'secret' means nothing. The sovereign state idea is out of date. All it means today is the privelege of being attacked by a nation with the atomic bomb. With the terrible advance in warfare and the cheapening of the cost of war, such an attack is no longer a speculation. We used it on Japan, and we are considered humanitarian...
...face of United States public opinion against Russia, any nation could easily plant a bomb in Chicago, and be sure that the "reds' would be blamed...