Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they got news of the atomic bomb, most intelligent men were filled with awe. Yet the most portentous news since that date has been the abundant evidence that mankind in general remains insufficiently aware of his predicament. There has been much talk about how to get the new monster into an unbreakable cage-and few admissions that the real monster is the human race...
Just a shade jealous of all the homecoming celebrations for returning generals, the Navy last week laid plans for a monster show of its own. On Oct. 2, silver-haired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz-who said bluntly last month that sea power won the war against Japan-will appear before the U.S. Congress. With him will come Fleet Admirals King and Leahy, Admirals Spruance, Halsey, Turner and Kinkaid, Marine General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Lieut. Generals Holland M. Smith and Roy S. Geiger-a total of 41 stars. And late in October the Navy will stage a full-dress...
...become the new master of brutality, infamy, atrocity. Bataan, Buchenwald, Dachau, Coventry, Lidice were tea parties compared with the horror which we, the people of the United States of America, have dumped on the world in the form of atomic energy bombs. No peacetime applications of this Frankenstein monster can ever erase the crime we have committed. We have paved the way for the obliteration of our globe. It is no democracy where such an outrage can be committed without our consent...
...James Chadwick, British physicist, said that some of his colleagues had refused to work on the atomic bomb for fear that they might be creating a planet-destroying monster...
...monster intricately built of cable, hooks and steel joints prepares to jerk a noose around a Jap's neck-as the Rising Sun sets in the background...