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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Implant Understanding." Murray suggested that "certainly the Soviet Union, Communist China and the European satellite countries" be present, and all the countries in the U.N. "They would, I should hope, later meet to talk about war and peace and about one essential condition of both: that is, the control of nuclear energy. All of them would talk more realistically and more fruitfully after their experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Biggest Show on Earth? | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...support of his proposal, Murray placed a heavy stress on the fallout of radioactive strontium from thermonuclear explosions. He said that such particles would continue to settle down on the earth for years after an explosion, that they might enter the food supply and kill those who ate the food. He believes this danger has been inaccurately minimized in official public statements. He believes that for the U.S. there was no prudent alternative to the construction of the present terrible weapons. Yet if the peoples of the world, including those of the U.S., understood how terrible these weapons are, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Biggest Show on Earth? | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Murray admitted that "inevitably, the demonstration at Eniwetok would be a demonstration of American power," but he emphasized that "it would not be a belligerent act, nor a threat of any American intention to start a war; there is no such intention . . . The purpose would not be to strike terror into the hearts of men, but to implant understanding in their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Biggest Show on Earth? | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...Spur the Soviets. Murray did not succeed, however, in persuading his four fellow members of the AEC that this biggest show on earth would be worthwhile. Commissioners Lewis Strauss, Willard Libby, John von Neumann and Harold Vance formally replied: "It should be noted that Russian and other foreign observers were invited to the tests at Bikini in 1946, where they witnessed atomic explosions of previously unimaginable destructive force. This demonstration, however, did not persuade the Soviet government of the need to join with us and other nations in an effective system for the international control of atomic energy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Biggest Show on Earth? | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...public anywhere in the world underestimates the destructive power of atomic weapons. The dictionaries of all languages have been combed for superlatives to describe the devastation that would ensue from atomic war. Could an observer from Russia or Burma or Bolivia take home a description more impressive than Commissioner Murray's own? In the U.S., physicists, generals and plain men, approaching the new weapons from different angles and at different levels of technical knowledge, all came to conclusions quite similar to Murray's own: that these weapons represent a danger of unprecedented magnitude to the survival of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Biggest Show on Earth? | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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