Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
...pine-paneled, second-floor office, surrounded by statues of the horses he loves, David Lilienthal was doing his best to sever the connection once & for all. He was trying, with every hope of success, to create the most destructive weapon in the world-an atomic bomb even bigger than the bomb which had wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima just two years...
That was the essence of AEC's second biennial report last week. Besides staking out a new atomic testing ground somewhere in the Pacific (see The Nation), the commission had started a tremendous new construction program in the bomb works of Hanford. It was the beginning of a second major effort in the field of atomic weapons, an effort as great as the stupendous wartime...
...William Wesley Waymack, 58, who looks more like a farmer than a Pulitzer-Prize-winning editor of the Des Moines Register. The scientist was Robert Fox Bacher, 41, cool, deliberate, diplomatic, the head of nuclear research at Cornell University and one of the scientists who assembled, the first atomic bomb. The banker was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 51, a mellow, courtly, impeccably dressed philanthropist, partner in New York's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The industrialist was tall, rangy Sumner Pike, 55, a bachelor and adventurous industrialist with a shrewd, twangy Yankee humor...
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake. And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, what e'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb...