Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dilemma could only be solved ... by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb" (TIME...
What is a "weapon of mass destruction?" The Bomb, for one thing; but there are other potential horrors. The U.N.'s Commission for Conventional Armaments last week pondered the category of weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. Adviser Franklin A. Lindsay proposed this definition: "Any instrument or invention capable of destroying life and property on the scale of a plague, a flood, a famine or an earthquake...
...Associated Press story from Fort Worth, Tex. reported the death of one Wilton Rhodes Earle, 39, onetime accountant at the atomic bomb plant at Oak Ridge. Said the A.P., quoting an "autopsy surgeon": Earle had died of atomic radiation to which he was exposed at Oak Ridge...
President Truman was in a reminiscent mood at his V-J day press conference. Someone asked him about the decision to use the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and he replied with a little story...
...President paused a moment, then said that the same thing was true in this case. In the interest of saving the lives of perhaps 250,000 American young men, he thought the decision to use the bomb was right when he made it-and he still thought it was right...