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That one thing, the greatest of all 1945's great events, was the atom bomb...
...submit that the problem is not the control of Atom but of Adam. We do not stand in terror of a thing but of ourselves. In this subterfuge of speaking about the Atom we simply give credence to the words of Jeremiah: The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked...
...fading, its denouement was not. Opinion polls showed that the overriding subject of U.S. interest was still, as at any given moment since Hiroshima, the atom bomb. Never before since the pollsters set up shop had one topic evoked such continuous, prolonged, intense public concern. Nothing-not the homecoming of the heroes, not strikes nor reconversion, the Pearl Harbor investigation, the housing shortage nor this week's Big Three meeting, not even Santa Claus -had been able to drive the bomb from topmost place in the U.S. mind...
Signs & Hopes. The world press wrote column upon column, but virtually nothing was known about what was going on at the Moscow conference. The atom, the Balkans, control of Japan were on the agenda. Hottest issue was Iran. The day the conference met, a revolutionary "National Government of Iranian Azerbaijan" was established at Tabriz with Russian support. Iran appealed to the Three, raising the cry of Russian interference with a fellow United Nation...
What were the biggest news stories of 1945? On anybody's list, the biggest was the atom. Looking back over a year that was chockablock with news of history-book size, the press associations last week had no trouble filling their lists with big stories. The U.P.'s top twelve events, picked for their "surprise, significance and headline display...