Word: existant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was, in dreadful truth, such a thing as the atom bomb. But strategists went on planning armies and navies as if it did not exist. Diplomats bickered away without ever mentioning it. To plain people it was a horror shoved in the back of the mind on the vague assumption that somebody would work out a way to subdue it for man's good...
...more lumps of explosive material to form one lump which is over the "critical size" and which instantly explodes. The possibility that the secret might be discovered by some other nation creates no immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist in the U.S. alone) are necessary. But over the next ten or 15 years the prospect was one in which even the bomb's first victims found a bitter grain of comfort...
Speculating, as beaten men will, on the consolations of adversity, Tokyo's Mainichi observed: "According to the notions held heretofore no great power could exist that was not a strong power. Yet . . . can we not . . . build up for the first time in the history of mankind a great power without arms?" It added: "Inevitably the theory and production method of the atomic bomb will have to be made public before long...
Actually, the deal was very much an if, as & when proposition. No oil has ever been discovered in Ethiopia, although oil men have a strong feeling that important pools may exist there. But for jowly Sinco, who loves to bet on anything, it was a good gamble. By putting up small stakes, he stands to collect handsomely if Ethiopia has oil. In any case, oilmen guessed that Sinco has his eyes on Ethiopia's potentially oil-rich neighbor, Eritrea, which Haile Selassie covets...
...From a point due north of Oahu, carriers launched some 300 planes piloted by the best of Jap naval aviators. For the Japs it was a long chance, but well worth the gamble. Below them lay the Americans, who "had gambled upon having time for preparation that did not exist...