Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Energy Commission's Chairman David Lilienthal swung wildly before the Denver Rotary Club. First he jabbed "those who would have us believe that two or three atomic bombs would render the United States uninhabitable." Then he hit "the campaign to make us believe this is 'just another bomb' . . . Deliberately setting out to downgrade the bomb is the worst." Then he flailed away towards the east: "Frankly I am getting damn well tired of those people in Washington and the opinion factories of New York who are forever trying to tell the American people how they should...
Nothing to Sell. Many times throughout his book Dr. Wiener stops in a cold sweat and looks a few years ahead: "Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb," he says, "it had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil . . . The first industrial revolution . . . was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery . . . The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and routine decisions . . . The human being of mediocre...
...none of these occasions did he say anything about the packet of stolen State Department papers which he had stashed away after he broke with the party. When he brought forward his dusty bomb from Brooklyn, he raised a whole new clamor...
...thin chain of islands picketing the vast Red-dominated land mass of Asia, Douglas MacArthur stood overwhelmingly outgunned, outmanned, and out-planed by actual and potential Soviet power. In every category of military strength (except the atomic bomb), the Soviet Union, stretching from the Bering Strait to Vladivostok and deep inland, held at least a ten-to-one superiority. Reported Douglas MacArthur: the time to prepare is now. He asked immediately for six divisions, hundreds of aircraft and increased naval forces...
...should . . . begin ... not with the unity and disunity of our churches, nor with the good and bad manners of modern man, nor with the terrifying picture of a culture that is oriented only technically and concerned only with production, nor with the threat of the atomic bomb, nor certainly with the few measures by which. we think we might cure all this calamity . . . [Man] himself is a part of the evil he thinks to overcome...