Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer certain that materialism is enough. Perhaps liberal science, which invented the atom bomb, is not the way, the truth and the light...
...ardently pro-atom U.S. Army was mum on the professor's suggestion. If it does lend its B-29s, the U.S. public will probably not be told about it. And if an experiment succeeds in setting up a chain reaction, it is possible that no living thing will be around to applaud.* For, if the scientists ever succeed in pulling the trigger...
...Third World War to Save Civilization had ended (with the help of the improved atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin...
...women were the celebrated international liberal, Angela Katz, author of Everyone Sleeps in One Big Bed-A Plea for the Internationalization of the Atom Bomb, and her daughter, Carrie Chapman Katz, named for the famed U.S. feminist. At the moment when civilization was whiffed out, they had been working in the stacks of the New York Public Library on Author Katz's new book, Down with Work-The Nuclear Physics of Economic Democracy, and perhaps owed their freak escape from the blast to the deadening effect of so many books...
...anything about it. Whatever words William Orton may use to charm the dense skepticism of his century, he is merely saying that liberalism divorced from religion becomes (in philosophy) a sterile materialism, in politics tyranny. He is explaining the genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization-the liberal who had become a revolutionist without realizing that he had ceased to be a liberal. He is explaining how one great category of liberal minds-the scientists-came to make the atom bomb and how liberal mankind came to permit them to. He is explaining...