Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Europe. So strongly was he bent on early U.S. invasion of the European continent that he once irascibly proposed that the U.S. move its war to the Pacific if Churchill delayed the invasion any longer. In 1945, Henry Stimson wrestled with a deeper problem. Should the U.S. drop the atom bomb on Japan? It should, he advised Harry Truman, in order "to end the war in victory with the least possible cost of [American] lives." His judgment in this would long be argued, on the grounds that Japan was already near to collapse...
...Disclosure of the secret of the atom bomb in circumstances where they could build up a stockpile of bombs while we were foreclosed from doing...
...meeting was brought to an impressive finale with a piano performance by Muriel, Lady Anderson of her new Atomica symphony, a musical interpretation of "how man's whole mind changed from the moment the atom bomb dropped." "Of course," said Lady Anderson to her enthusiastic audience, "I was inspired. Man can do anything he wants if he will only tune in to the vibrations around...
Sometime next spring Lady Anderson hopes to have Atomica played by a professional orchestra. Meanwhile, Founder Howorth is dreaming of the day when she can stage Isotopia at the Albert Hall. "We would have room there," she explained with a hectic smile, "for all the 92 transmutations of the atom. Then we could have the explosion...
...steely as cars in a parking lot brings back the initial awesomeness of Nazi arms. The ferocity of the advancing Japanese is reflected in the gaunt faces of U.S. soldiers captured at Bataan. Color pictures of London under the blitz are reminders that it takes less than an atom bomb to turn a city into a hell. The slowly swelling might, the losses and final victories of the Allies are recorded in pictures that sometimes hurt and sometimes lift the heart...