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...Although an atomic bomb† is thousands of times more powerful than an ordinary bomb, there are limits to its power and destructiveness. Those limits depend not only on the size of the bomb, but also on how and where the bomb is exploded - and how well the defense is organized to meet...
...pointing to a chair and calling it a table." Then India's Rau made an unexpected move. He suggested that the Council's six small powers form a committee to draft a Korean peace plan; he added that India would stick by her insistence that peace must depend on a withdrawal of the North Koreans to the 38th parallel. Malik, for once, had nothing...
Whether the Korean war will spread or be localized may well depend on the action of Communist China. The Peking regime has granted comradely recognition to the North Korean regime. Its propaganda cheers on the North Korean army. Last week Nationalist Chinese intelligence reported that Red China's Boss Mao Tse-tung, Premier and Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and No. 1 Field General Lin Piao were conferring in Mukden with Soviet Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
Designing guided missiles is vastly more difficult than designing "inhabited" aircraft. A new model airplane has a pilot on board to correct its maiden errors, and (if all goes well) to bring it down intact for study and improvement. Guided missiles depend on artificial brains which need to be tested themselves, and they are seldom recovered except as a mass of wreckage. To test a new missile by the cut-and-try method of actual flight is expensive not only in money, but also in more precious time...
Distribution of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives (and likewise the electoral votes of each state) depend by law on the census. The new figures meant that industrial New York and Pennsylvania had lost some of their overwhelming political power. With one representative now allotted for roughly every 344,000 citizens, New York stood to lose three of its 45 representatives, Pennsylvania perhaps two of its 33. But California expected to get eight new seats to add to its present...