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Atomic Bombs in International Society*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2017

Elbert D. Thomas
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That man could destroy his civilization has been known, theoretically, for many years; now there is actual proof that he can. Atomic bombs have been unleashed in international society, the results of which have no comparison in history.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , October 1945 , pp. 736 - 744
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1945

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Footnotes

*

This article is an expansion of an unpublished interview given to a student, Glenn Everett,the day after the bomb was loosed over Hiroshima.

References

1 See my “World Unity as Recorded in History,” in International Conciliation, No. 287 (February, 1934).

2 See my Thomas Jefferson, World Citizen, New York, 1942, p. 198.

3 The authors of the San Francisco charter did not dare go further than “We the peoples “ (our italics).