Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before & After. General Marshall used the atomic bomb as an argument that future national defense would require large ground forces. General Arnold pointed out that the first bomb had been delivered by air. Admiral Nimitz said: "The atom bomb has given new importance to sea power...
...group of thoughtful U.S. citizens met at Dublin, N.H. to re-examine the United Nations Charter in the atom's cosmic light. A U.S. official in London, noting that the Dublin thinkers were all internationalist from way back, commented dryly that they probably would have called for a reinforced world state, atom...
...isolationist Chicago Tribune characteristically said: "We must make very sure that we have the most atom bombs and the best airplanes in which to fly them." Representative Rankin was of like mind: "Let us keep the strongest air force on earth as well as the strongest Navy; then, if the international conference does collapse because of Communistic pressure from the other side, then let us look after America...
Scientists did not like the May-Johnson bill's emphasis on secrecy. To them the bill seemed a reflection of the U.S. Army's attitude that the atom was primarily a weapon of war rather than a challenging frontier on the limits of knowledge, to be pushed back for the benefit...
...Mostprominent: Almighty Atom, John J.O'Neill, Ives Washburn; Atomic Energy in the Coming Era, David Dietz, Dodd, Mead; Atom Smashers, Raymond E. Yates, Didier; The Atomic Age Opens, Pocket Books...