Word: hiroshima
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...question is hardly startling. Israel may represent the only people who have actually viewed the Apocalypse, but on Aug. 6, 1945, the rest of the world saw something that might pass for the Apocalypse until the right thing comes along. Hiroshima occurred, after all. No one dreamed Harry Truman's Promethean explanation: "It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war." At that time the bomb was thought of solely as a weapon. Some hold the dark theory that...
...mind. And the mind has had a very odd relationship with the bomb from the moment it conceived it. Seeing what man had wrought, the people involved in the Manhattan Project almost immediately began to use language in order to deny what they saw, calling the Hiroshima bomb Little Boy, and sending a coded message to report the first successful test at Alamogordo that read, "Babies satisfactorily born"-as if to urge innocence on evil. After Hiroshima, the historical fact could not be expunged; still one could avoid looking at the weapon directly. Only its inventors never seemed to shrink...
...face the bomb squarely might help explain why the attempts to control nuclear proliferation have been so ineffectual. On the one hand, the world has seen more than 30 major good-faith efforts at containing proliferation-a dogged series of pacts, treaties and conferences, extending from three months after Hiroshima through the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1957, the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 1968, and the International Fuel Cycle Evaluation, the barely pronounceable INFCE, in 1977, that undertook the apparently futile task of dispersing the power without the danger. There...
...Begin: "The Iranian people should not fear the Iraqi nuclear reactor, which is not intended to be used against Iran, but against the Zionist enemy." He added that the imminent start-up of the reactor would enable Iraq to begin manufacturing, "in the near future, between three and five Hiroshima-type nuclear bombs of 20 kilotons...
...especially dangerous right now for a number of changing conditions. The first is the sheer multiplication in the number of weapons. The world now has a growing stockpile of 50,000 nuclear weapons with a combined 15 million tons of TNT--"one million times greater than the bombs at Hiroshima," Lown emphasizes, adding that technological advances in the accuracy of nuclear weapons have been responsible for dangerous changes in government policy. Increases in targeting accuracy lead to policies of pre-emption, Lown says, citing as an example for President Jimmy Carter's Presidential Directive 59, which effectively recognized the policy...