Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remember Galileo! Truman's stand coincided with a gathering revolt of U.S. scientists. An important array of them feared that a U.S. policy based on illusions of secrecy might destroy the kind of free research which had made atomic fission possible. Even the sort of control recommended by the President would inevitably touch fields of research far beyond the military uses of the atom. Atomic development could not be totally controlled, nationally or internationally, without also controlling a large part of normal, peacetime scientific effort...
Given all the breaks, the Allied Control Council would have to blueprint a miracle. By decree of the Big Three at Potsdam, the Council must destroy Germany's war potential without destroying her ability to subsist. It must select and encourage industries which do not make a war potential (in the long run, most industries do). It must calculate a minimum economy for Germany, and take steps to hold Germany to that minimum...
...Careers. The U.S. Maritime Commission put up for sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to destroy all motors, engines and other salvageable gear. Reason: to keep these items off an already glutted market. So far the Maritime Commission has received bids for two of the ships: $3,100 and $9,100 (they had cost upward of $1.5 million apiece...
...world that we, a normally peace-loving nation, did discover it first. But it is equally useless to say that because we are a peace-loving nation and possess the secret, the future peace of the world is assured. What nation, knowing that with atomic power we could utterly destroy it without warning and without harm to ourselves, would trust even the U.S. ? No. The only answer I see is strict international control...
Last week the U.S. position was: planes with atomic bombs could reach any spot in the world. When they got there, they could destroy so much faster than the victims could rebuild that surrender was the onlv possible result...