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Volume 26 - April 1983

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Page 7 of 13

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Research Article

  • The Press, The State & The Bomb

  • Robert Karl Manoff
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 17-20

  • For most reporters the atomic age began with a press release. "It's a statement from the president, "Assistant White House Press Secretary Eben Ayers told those gathered at the Monday-morning briefing on August 6, 1945, and he began to read:

    Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare....

    It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its powers has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

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  • Crisis Control & The U.N.

  • Thomas E. Boudreau
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 20-21

  • During the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant sent a letter to Soviet Premier Khrushchev asking that he halt the Soviet ships then headed for Cuba in defiance of a U.S. quarantine. U Thant's request gave Khrushchev a plausible—and honorable— explanation for preventing an impending clash, and he accepted it. As Richard Walton states in his Cold War and Counterrevolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy: "The Acting Secretary General [was] responsible for the breathing space that avoided confrontation at sea—and possible escalation into nuclear war."

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