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Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand, wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
...Hiroshima Nevermore...
Atom Testing: Almost since the moment that the first atomic bomb burst upon Hiroshima, the free world and the Communists have been talking-and disagreeing-about control of nuclear weaponry. In October 1958 the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain began test-ban talks in Geneva. The conference finally broke up, after 353 sessions, without the slightest sign of substantive agreement. The U.S. and Britain have insisted on control by inspection; Russia has not been willing to allow meaningful inspection...
Russell's delight at the defeat of Hitler was short-lived. Immediately after Hiroshima he wrote, "The atomic bomb makes one...reconsider all sorts of things. I have never, not even in 1940, felt the outlook as gloomy as now. Everything is working up for a war between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., with us a satellite of the U.S.A.; both sides will use atomic bombs, and very little will be left...
...signal ever comes, each Minuteman will blast out of its silo and, carrying a hydrogen warhead with over 50 times the explosive power of the Hiroshima bomb, set out for a target up to 6,300 miles away. That prospect should make any potential aggressor think twice before launching an attack against...