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...million plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., production of Uranium 235 for atomic and hydrogen bombs has never stopped for a second since the process first began ten years ago. In the 44-acre building, which uses as much power as New York City, thousands of motors pump fiercely corrosive gases through endless microscopic filters in a steady surging flow. No one knows what would happen if the process stopped. Last fortnight, the Atomic Energy Commission feared that a strike of 3,500 employees might cause a ruinous stoppage. But the strike was quickly settled. Last week it became clear that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Man Who Understands | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind. Reporting on his "diplomatic weekend" in Washington, Churchill admitted that the H-bomb had been the reason for it. He had been astonished and shocked at its devastating power. He had learned about it only last February from a speech by a U.S. Congressman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Long Whine | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Guatemala Putsch. Attlee had other complaints. He wanted an immediate meeting with Malenkov on the hydrogen bomb-"It is no good putting this thing off." And he was incensed about Guatemala. "The fact is that this was a plain matter of aggression, and one cannot take one line on aggression in Asia and another line in Central America. I confess I was rather shocked at the joy and approval of the American Secretary of State at the success of this putsch . . . There was a principle involved, and that principle was the responsibility of the United Nations. I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Long Whine | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Churchill's suggestion that they were basically anti-American. In the debate that followed, speaker after speaker from both sides emphasized the importance of U.S.-British alliance. Cried Laborite S. N. Evans roundly: "Do not let us forget that EDC and the American bases and NATO and the hydrogen bomb are not the causes of international tension: they are the end product, the inevitable consequence of Stalin's postwar madman's dream of a new Communist Roman Empire . . . Without American military and industrial strength . . . the U.N. organization would be dead; there would be no Geneva negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One Long Whine | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

What the House wanted Eden to do was to give the Communists the benefit of every doubt. Where no doubt existed, it wanted doubt created so that benefit might be given. Living under the fear of destruction by hydrogen bombs in case of any war, Britons seemed more interested in Communist bargains, however bad, that might bring peace than allied action, however wise, that brought a risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Risks of a Municheer | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

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