THE TWO BOMBS
DALLIN, DAVID J.
East and West The Two Bombs By David J. Dallin la las peansdlog ssro columns on th« atomic' and hydrogen »m—hs, Mr. Pallia adwocaxsd two types of Intarnational agraamantc which might ba...
...And into the shafts would be backed old Frank...
...Strategic Bombing Survey lead to the conclusion that the advantages from strategic bombing were hardly worth the tremendous Josses of both American military personnel iind German or Japanese civilians...
...WILL STALIN AGREE to such a convention...
...and then atomic research "will be \conducted, with or without Allied permission, as a way to regain sovereignty and power...
...And out would come the Jones kids with their sleds...
...But what of it...
...But on this morning he was far from ordinary...
...And if he agrees, will he keep it...
...The first house we would come io would be that of the Joneses...
...We are still in a position to prevent what may later grow into a great international calamity...
...The dark old spire and the dainty finials, even the windows and the doors, were outlined in clean white...
...The shoveling of paths, the feeding of cattle, the carrying in of the wood — all of the routine of life was conducted with a zest which could not be exceeded in any game...
...The levelling of Russian cities and the destruction of her economy will serve only to nullify the strongest of all our weapons—the internal Antagonisms in the structure of the Soviet state...
...This will not be an easy task...
...What a brilliantly shining coat of red...
...Father was full of life...
...But it will not be long before Germany and Japan will try to rearm...
...SO THE CUTTER was pulled out...
...The Soviet Union and its satellites will refuse to join any effective Atom Convention...
...mistake wilt be made, and more than one barrier must be overcome before this aeeA' minery will operate smoothly...
...Tha second type of agreement Is discussed by Mr...
...And at last...
...AND SOMEHOW the cutting away from routine habit seemed, for a time at least, to justify the expectations of the occasion...
...The trees were transformed into the daintiest of etchings against an old wall...
...Ami All lllllMII lit l ¦ l , I \A i i — of xne tjHfty ox xony esspaean...
...There was a playful meed about our whole establishment...
...if the nations of the free world succeed n it, this will mean tremendous progress...
...Each new weight was merely a new challenge...
...Pallia adwocaxsd two types of Intarnational agraamantc which might ba accaptad by and kapt by tha Soviet Government...
...Had World War II started and ended a few- years later, Hitler would have used the A-bomb before the Allies...
...Perhaps it was the unfamiliar tang of the air...
...With a belly-bumping dash each one of them would hitch on behind...
...youngest of us, the six ajjmhSHs, had walked this distance so many times that the travel on foot was not regarded a? a hardship...
...My father was a very tough and calculable part of life...
...We have to bear in mind that unlimited aerial warfare means not only destruction of Soviet cities, but a\so of the main capitals of Western Europe...
...For the time being this international agency vill embrace the non-Soviet world only, but all nations, big and small, advanced and backward, must participate in it...
...The miraculous thing about this blanket of shimmering white is that it creates a new world...
...The window at which I do most of my writing looks upon an old church...
...When the first great snow came, some fairy or devil or witch got late that rigid and piratical man...
...that Stalin will probably go far to save the main centers of Russia in a global debacle...
...Today only three or four Western nations (the United States, Britain, Canada and France) are doing serious research in atomic energy...
...wsw eengex m this Mirfst red er*"""iniiss ell fhn things whe#> John Dewey talks about...
...We would say farewell at night to a universe of familiar greens, browns and grays...
...Next we would come to the Clarke, then to the Merrits —' and so on...
...Why it was called a cutter I have never known...
...It • has not been acceptable till now for two reasons: first because the most important , war industries and agencies would be transferred by each nation to its "immune" cities...
...No one else in our entire part of the country ever, ever^took children to school in a horse-drawn vehicle...
...But what a sleigh...
...A pump-handle or a barn roof or a brook curling through a meadow would be so disguised that one almost refused to believe that down underneath it was the same old thing...
...The bells had been their warning...
...He had rigid ideas about when boys should get up in the morning and about how they should put in the time between, rising and going to school...
...Therefore, only such political and strategic methods should be applied that would neither alienate nor create hostility among the non-Soviet majority of the Russians...
...But on the morning of the first snow no such prosaic method of transportation would satisfy my pixilated father...
...Father had hard work to hold him until we were all packed under the buffalo robes...
...Now I suppose Frank would have seemed to an outsider an ordinary farmborse...
...It was a sleigh...
...their mutual ties are strong...
...Facts and figures published in the official U.S...
...Tha iirat of thaaa agreements would baa&h tha use—but not the production —of A-"and H-weapons...
...But the change that could .be wrought in him by no other influence could be brought about by those millions of tiny crystals which disguised the workaday outlines of life...
...second, because military leaders have expected miracles from unlimited aerial warfare...
...in July, 1943, about 60 per cent of Hamburg was destroyed...
...Frank didn't seem to mind...
...Dallin below in the last of his columns on this problem...
...Despite the damage done to military installations, however, repairs were carried out fast...
...It would guarantee that clearly denned city-areas in each nation would be spared by rival air forces...
...It had snowed...
...more than one...
...Five hundred thousand men, women and children were killed in Germany, while about 100,000 American personnel were lost...
...and that therefore, the very first jew weeks may mean devastation in both East and West on an unprecedented scale...
...It was a time to celebrate...
...No definite answers are possible...
...The idea is not new...
...Then we would awake to an entirely new world...
...The day the snow came I viewed a fantastically beautiful sight...
...on the other hand, Stalin will certainly break his commitments if that should appear advantageous to him...
...Under this prohibition would fall the biggest agglomerations of civilian population, such as New York, Paris, London, Moscow, Leningrad, Amsterdam, Boston and Baku...
...We must again bear in mind, however, that Russian cities—to a great extent the product of twenty years of industrialization—are the pride of Soviet Communism...
...The very devil had got into that animal...
...The experience of the last war shows that iiir power is not as effective as generally supposed...
...Its colors and outlines had changed but slowly through spring, summer and autumn...
...Theinternational machinery and the sol ice force needed to control, to check, to prohibit, and to punish should be created soon...
...It could attract the attention and win the sympathy of the people of every country...
...It could serve to refute false accusations and outright lies...
...and that he might be prepared to pay the price of an agreement which would also protest the cities of the West...
...each house a now cooUnaent would attach itself to the lengthening train...
...It was familiar, the environment in which we had done the work and borne the heat of summer...
...as a matter of fact, German war industries were able to increase their output up to 1944...
...ONE MORE ITEP toward eonsoHdaOon *f the non-aggressive nations is urgently necessary—the creation of international machinery to control atomic armaments...
...THE SECOND AGREEMENT which might be acceptable to all powers, including the Soviet Union, would provide for exemption of certain big cities from future aerial m tack...
...It will consti;ute quite a novel undertaking in human hisory...
...While I read in the morning papers how many millions it would cost the city to clear these few inches of white crystals from the pavements, my mind kept running back to snow in my boyhood, snow in the country —to what snow used to mean...
...At least that is what it used to do...
...and who is able to depict what would have been the political consequences of such a development...
...Control of A- W K —apnssj must b*organized before our fonocf -mmSm revive and rehabHiteU fheaaselVee...
...Every familiar object would be transformed into something strangely beautiful...
...Even,.llK...
...Louder souoeVed the hells, higher sprayed the snow from his heeds...
...What beautiful, curving lines...
...But the climax of the motning carm^^tiUh IT was time, finally, to start forWe had a mile to travel to seek U)*-delf§hts of jseadin1 and writin' and 'rithjpeflc...
...And the moment he got the word, off he would go, head and tail in the air and the snow from his heels flying over our heads...
...whan we swerved trittmphantiy cutter aad he pandas* sflada fiftoaa ef*tsassjt/ - * Jit, - Altjm^m, ~g |f...
...What gay flowers painted in gold...
...This once, his children must' go to school in style...
...Finally, a war with Russia will differ from the last war in one respect: its outcome will depend on whether the Russian people in their great majority can be won over to the Allied side...
...This was a special occasion...
...The Home Front It Was Fun By William E. Bohn AT LAST we have had a couple of inches of snow in metropolitan New York...
...The scene was so new and strange that it furnished a powerful incitement to the fancy...
...Perhaps it was the great string of bells that was looped about his middle...
...From the moaaant of his awakening and Ms tasting toe tingle ia the sir, he would be ¦sflsaent...
...this was not true of the war with Germany and Japan...
...that the world will enter a new war in a state of high preparedness...
...Even without Stalin's participation, an efficient international atomic agency could soon acquire a great propagandists power...
Vol. 33 • March 1950 • No. 9
