Word: pacificism
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SOUTH PACIFIC No Nukes in Paradise
The countries that dot the southern half of the world's largest ocean are known for their peaceful, sand-ringed islands and their sun-drenched coral atolls. But the problems of the nuclear age are intruding on this tranquillity. Last week the 13-nation South Pacific Forum met in Rarotonga...
American officials, however, were already having second thoughts about entering into another partnership with the Soviets. Stalin was, to say the least, a troublesome ally in the occupation of liberated Europe. When news of the successful Alamogordo test reached Potsdam, top American officials began to view the Bomb as a...
The decision, then, was from their vantage simple. If Truman had not used the Bomb, how could he have explained it to the families of the boys who would subsequently have died, be it 40,000 of them or a million? How could he have justified continuing the war, transferring...
At least one delegate, it must be reported, walked from his hotel to the U.N. "My people wouldn't like it if I rode around in a big motorcade," shrugged Frazer Sine of Vanuatu, a nation of 80 islands in the South Pacific. Sine even took the New York subway...