Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atom bomb has "long since ceased to be a secret...
...Argentina explained why he had committed his country to war on the U.S. side, if war should ever come. "We are in the Antarctic Circle, Russia is in the Arctic Circle, and the U.S. is in the middle," said he, adding easily,"with the atomic bomb." He observed: "The stronger always wins...
Scientists vigorously deny any responsibility for the war, but many of them have a bad conscience about the part that science played in making the atom bomb. Science's sense of guilt was frankly admitted last week, in Technology Review, by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime head of the Los Alamos (atom bomb) Laboratory and now director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...Oppenheimer wrote " . . . has left us with a legacy of concern. . . . Nowhere is this troubled sense of responsibility more acute . . . than among those who participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. . . . The physics which played the decisive part in the development of the atomic bomb came straight out of our laboratories and our journals. . . . In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...Ceremonies held on December 2 marked the birth of the atomic bomb here five years...