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Atomic Power - Reconstructed Lecture

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The atomic bomb has elicited from us all a complex response: horror at what was done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also a strange hope. For here is an appalling danger for all humanity—yet also an immense potentiality for good. Perhaps the bomb will force us, at last, to found a genuine World State. Nothing less can control this power. If that is what it takes to unite humanity, then even this horror may prove a turning point. It has certainly woken up the public as no amount of philosophical argument ever could. What if we fail to organize international control? The prospect is grim. First, war is revolutionized. This first atomic bomb is two thousand times as powerful as the largest conventional bomb, at perhaps one-tenth the weight. The next generation will be a thousand times more powerful still—two million times the old explosive. Warships, bombers, conventional armies all become futile. The future belongs to atomic rockets with atomic warheads, to submarine-launched bombs, to wa

Atomic Power - Reconstructed Lecture Original Notes Reconstructed Lecture Reaction to the Atomic Bomb Reaction to the atomic bomb horror but hope appalling danger for Mankind but immense potentiality for good The bomb may force us to found a World State It has waked up the public Reaction to the Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb has elicited from us all a complex response: horror at what was done to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also a strange hope. For here is an appalling danger for all humanity—yet also an immense potentiality for good. Perhaps the bomb will force us, at last, to found a genuine Wo

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