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Today's issues are graver, and TIME'S letter-writers are correspondingly more concerned about them (e.g., the very heavy volume of thoughtful mail we have received on the atom bomb). Many letters hit us hard, and sometimes we reciprocate-not always by mail. For example: a University of Shanghai professor wrote in recently to thank us for a large map of Manchuria which hit him on the head outside the TIME & LIFE Building during the blizzard of paper that marked the peak of the V-J Day festivities...
...citizens discovered last week that perhaps their most potent secret weapon of World War II was not radar, not the VT fuse, not the atom bomb-but a harmless little machine which cryptographers painstakingly constructed in a hidden room at Fort Washington...
...Germans had not even been close in the atomic bomb race. Plump-faced Dr. S. A. Goudsmit, head of an American scientific intelligence mission to Germany, told an amazed Senate hearing last week that top German physicists had thought such weapons were "a hundred years away." Far from being on the verge of atom bombs as the war ended, they were still in the early experimental stage. But, with German arrogance, they had thought that the Allies were even further from success...
...this emphasis on the bomb was natural for the bomb-conscious U.S.; but it was by no means certain that Moscow was intensely interested in discussions of atomic agreements. Russia considered the atom a long-range item and would not worry much if terms for its control were not reached. Moscow knew that the U.S. would not use the bomb in current disputes ; meanwhile, Russian scientists would work to catch up. Five or ten years hence, the Russians' atomic bargaining position might be improved...
...whether UNO could walk alone. Even if the stymied Council of Foreign Ministers handles the peace treaties, as Potsdam stipulated, UNO will have plenty of headaches. The agenda of the first General Assembly meeting in January includes such knotty problems as Palestine, trusteeships and refugees-not to mention the atom bomb...