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Russians who covet the atomic bomb seemed to be able to find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...
...followers shouted a new slogan: 'Hamara atom bomb Qaid-i-Azam"-The Great Leader is our atom bomb. But the fuse was a little slow; the bomb had not gone off, and it looked at last as if India might achieve independence without civil...
...Bomb. "To clear away the hysteria," five of them published The Absolute Weapon (Harcourt Brace; $2) this week. The five (Bernard Brodie, Frederick Dunn, Arnold Wolfers, Percy Corbett, William Fox), all members of the Yale Institute of International Studies, have produced the best overall job yet on the atom's actual political implications. They make it more real by frankly presupposing that the only two powers likely to engage in an atomic-armament race are the U.S. and Russia...
Threat of Stalemate. In developing this theme The Absolute Weapon's text refutes the rather silly title. The atom can and will be fitted into military and political strategy, like all other weapons. A surprise atom-bomb attack could make Pearl Harbor look like a mere raid, but continental areas such as the U.S. and Russia are too great for immediate knock-out blows. A surprised but still surviving nation with atomic stockpiles could in its turn destroy the aggressor's cities and industries. After the first heavy devastation, both sides would have to fight minus most...
More dangerous than the atom itself is the idea that a quick atomic blitz would defeat any great nation. No possible atomic aggressor would be able to think that if other great nations are automatically prepared. In mutual atomic war, even the "victor" will suffer "destruction incomparably greater than that suffered by any defeated nation in history. . . . Under those circumstances no victory, even if guaranteed in advance-which it never is-would be worth the price...