Word: atom
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Modern Times. In Washington, D.C., the Post Office Department opened a letter addressed to Santa Claus: "Please send me two atom bombs, a couple of pistols and a good sharp knife...
Would use of the atom bomb be seemly in the eyes of God, and, if so, under what conditions? Singly and in groups, the world's clergymen were doing their best last week to give the answer...
...Asked whether the U.S. would be justified in using the atom bomb, Geopolitician Father Edmund A. Walsh, S J., of Georgetown University, said: "If the Government of the United States has sound reason to believe . . . that. . . attack is being mounted and ready ... it would appear that President Truman would be morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide...
...Professor Robert M. Hawkins of Vanderbilt University's School of Religion thought it a military rather than a moral question. "To me the atom bomb is just another weapon . . . Any weapon is inhumane, and I would rather be blown up with an atom bomb than bayoneted...
...Atom Bombers. While such big-city papers as the New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the San Francisco