Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have facility with these facts and these weapons which the West too often lacks. An outstanding example of their acumen is the Stockholm Peace Appeal; confirmed Communists and political innocents alike have signed this broad manifesto, aligning themselves with its eloquent plea for peace and the banning of the atom bomb. The Soviets not only collect credit for the Appeal but also claim, often very effectively, that all the signers are on their side...
...perplexed U.S. citizens trooped to Washington last week. They were civilian defense directors of many states, mayors representing some 60 million Americans, leaders of women's groups. They had been summoned to the capital to discuss plans for civilian defense if their communities should be hit by atom bombs. They were met by NSRB Chairman W. Stuart Symington and his brother-in-law, James J. Wadsworth, who is acting federal director of civilian defense...
...part of the London blitz, he said, but he had never lost confidence even then that the Allies would eventually win. Now he felt no such confidence. The U.S., he told his visitors, "is in far greater danger than at any time in its history." Russia could deliver the atom bomb "anywhere in this country," and the U.S. might lose a World...
...Angeles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Evans Dean assured reporters that the U.S. stock of atom bombs was undoubtedly larger than Russia's but added, "That's not much comfort, because 10, 20 or 30 bombs is far too many for anyone to have...
...people in the city would have a specific job in the army of civilian defense. Many more would have to help out on a moment's notice. The biblical injunction to love thy neighbor was being forced on men by man's own unneighborliness. Communism and the atom had posed a problem of total war in which civilians were totally involved...