Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bases in northeast Siberia across the Bering Strait from Alaska, from which they could bomb any city...
...scientific knowledge and the technical procedure," but not the industrial capacity, to build the atomic bomb. (This testimony came from Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who said he was quoting Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research and Development Board. When Russia would have the capacity, Forrestal was not prepared...
Washington had come to the conclusion that the public is far too jittery about the atom bomb. Said Colonel James P. Cooney of the Army Medical Corps : "If a bomb were dropped on one of our cities tomorrow, mass hysteria would probably cause the unnecessary loss of many lives." In soothing vein, the Surgeon General's office this week issued a statement with a cheery title: "Army Doctors Say Hysteria Need Not Follow Atom-Bomb Explosion." Some of its reassuring points...
...immediate effects of atomic bombs, the Army doctors conceded, are serious: "There is not much even a medical man can do." People who seem uninjured may die-quickly or slowly. But there is a consolation: "The threat of the atom bomb is, at least, now recognized, and we have assembled a growing store of knowledge which can ultimately be mastered...
...atom bomb," confided George Bernard Shaw, "is out of the question, just as gas was in the last war. It is too destructive to both sides...