Word: atomization
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...changing world of the atom, everything suddenly changed. Statesmen strove to raise the atomic debate from the depths of frightened nationalism to the heights of a new internationalism. Two British spokesmen, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin (see FOREIGN NEWS) strove to bend that internationalism to the uses of a strengthened Anglo-American power alignment, and Clement Attlee tried to sell both ideas to Harry Truman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Capt. Harold E. Stassen, of Minnesota and the U.S. Navy, did more than raise the level of debate; he presented a specific framework within which the atom could be considered as a world problem...
Omissions and a Hope. Stassen notably did not i) bring Russia into his atomic equation; 2) get specific about the faults which must be corrected before the atom can be entrusted to UNO's care. What he did offer was aggressive good faith: ". . . We must do more than give lip service to the United Nations Organization...
...Ruml, speaking in Manhattan this week, then stated a view which should bore nobody: much of the talk of a world state to control the atom is beside the point; the world won't be ready for a world state for at least 20 years. Said Ruml...
Cried Churchill, angered by reports that some scientists threatened to publish everything they knew about the atom: "... I hope the law will be used against these men [scientists] with utmost vigor. . . . On many occasions in the past we have seen attempts to rule the world by experts of one kind or another. There have been theocratic governments. It is now suggested that we should have scientistic -not scientific-governments...