USE OF ATOM BOMBS
COMMENT OF U.S. SENATOR
NEW YORK, August 18. Senator Scott Lucas, the Senate Democratic Leader, declared to-day that if the Communists attacked any Atlantic Pact country, the United States would “start tossing atomic bombs where it hurts.”
Senator Lucas made this statement in a speech to his constituents in Illinois.
He also said that if the United States had not opposed Communist aggression in Korea, "we would have a world war on our hands to-day.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26196, 21 August 1950, Page 7
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