Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split?and far from controlled. As most men realized, the first atomic bomb was a merely pregnant threat, a merely infinitesimal promise (see ATOMIC...
...Threat. On the mainland of Far Eastern Asia, another war had begun as the old one was ending. For 16 years, the Russians had kept an army poised along their Siberian frontier facing Manchuria, had blooded it in border clashes with the Japs' well-trained, ill-famed Kwantung Army...
...spent half again as much (nearly $3 billion) on radar as on atomic bombs. As a military threat, either in combination with atomic explosives or as a countermeasure, radar is probably as important as atomic power itself. And while the peacetime potentialities of atomic power are still only a hope, radar already is a vast going concern-a $2 billion-a-year industry, six times as big as the whole prewar radio business...
...Plan. The Potsdam plan called for complete demilitarization. Germany in the future will not be allowed to make weapons or aircraft. But the main German threat lay in quickly trainable citizen-soldiers and in factories that could be quickly converted to armaments. What to do about them was not so easy...
There is another threat to civilian drivers: OPA is now giving out gas coupons for more gas than PAW is allotting civilians, thus drawing down reserves as much as 100,000 barrels a day faster than anticipated. Before long, there may have to be a reckoning...