Word: soon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the decision was made, a courier was sent to Secretary of State Acheson at the U.N. meeting in Flushing Meadows so that he would be informed in advance of the public announcement. The British, French and Canadians were also told; Britain decided to make a parallel statement from 10 Downing Street. By next morning, the arrangements were complete and the President's message was published to the Cabinet and the press...
Inevitable Day. Despite the first quick sense of shock, the news made no essential change at all in U.S. relations with Russia. Like U.S. scientists, U.S. planners had well known that the day must inevitably come-and soon-when Russia would have the bomb. "Ever since atomic energy was first released by man," wrote the President, "the eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account...
There were some immediate and obvious revisions to make. The Air Force, which had been budgeted at 48 groups, had a powerful new reason for going onto a 70-group schedule as soon as Congress provided the money. The Air Force, heavily accenting bomber construction, would also have to emphasize another kind of plan: it would need more interceptors than it has contracted for. It would also have to speed work on construction of a 24-hour radar net across the Arctic frontier from Alaska to Greenland...
Black Array. The fagade of banalities, already cracked, soon crumbled. Next day, Assembly Chairman General Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippines, a neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
...Tung, a peasant's on turned revolutionary, yesterday was named head of the new Chinese communist government which will bid soon for international recognition. The widow of Sum Yat-Sen was also named for a post...