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...decade and perhaps longer to erect an industrial base equal to the demands of equipping its own armed forces with Chinese-made tanks, artillery and aircraft. Is it in Russia's plans to let Red China do that? China cannot be one of the powers of the thermonuclear age without thermonuclear weapons. Will Russia let Red China build them? The possibilities of cleavage may not happen in Mao's generation, for what binds two sets of international gangsters together is a mutual advantage greater than the friction which might drive them apart. The possibilities of split are there...
...more than a year, the public heard only rumors and skimpy statistics about Operation Ivy, the first full-dress thermonuclear explosion. Then, last winter, the U.S. Government decided to release the full story. President Eisen hower, speaking of atomic development, told the United Nations that "the peoples of the world . . . must be armed with the significant facts of today's existence." The shapes and colors of Operation Ivy are part of the story which the Government is gradually releasing. Three weeks ago, the press published some Statistics about the blast, along with black and white photographs. Some still Cuts...
...increase the chances of world peace more than the chances of war." In one of his most moving performances, the soon-to-retire, old (79) Prime Minister stepped forward to dam a flood of justified concern and political alarm which had hit Britain in the wake of the U.S. thermonuclear experiments...
Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
...Usual Aim. Like so many of the ostensibly clumsy swipes which Vyacheslav Molotov makes with his diplomatic hammer & sickle, this one had a method, and a danger to it. In a week when many of the U.S.'s allies seemed politically mesmerized by the mushrooming cloud of the thermonuclear bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Molotov adroitly played on man's justified concern over the power he now holds in his arsenals: "There can be no doubt that the employment of atomic and hydrogen weapons in a war . . . would mean the wholesale annihilation of civilians and the destruction...