Mystery in Marburg
Paris, France, December 1 – Gen. Eisenhower today denied German reports that Allied bombers had dropped chemical weapons on the city of Marburg, Germany.
German radio has announced the evacuation of the city, due to fears of poison gas...
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The New York Times, Dec. 1 1944, p. 4.
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“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...” -Lewis L. Strauss
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” -Albert Einstein
“No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.” -Charles De Gaulle
“The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.” -Albert Einstein
“There are no total answers, no easy answers, no cheap answers to the question of protection from nuclear attack. But there are answers.” -Fallout Protection, Pamphlet from the Office of Civil Defense
“When will I be blown up?” -William Faulkner
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- And Godless Communism!
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