EFFECT OF ATOM WAR
“Not All Over In Few Minutes” KANSAS CITY (Missouri), April 18. Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of United States Naval Operations, said today he did not subscribe to the belief that in event of an atomic war “it would be all over in a few minutes.”
In an address prepared for the Armed Forces Council, Admiral Carney declared: “I do not believe this is true, no matter how terrible the destruction might be. “I say this because I do not believe that tough people, on either side, are likely to give up so long as they have anything left to fight with.
’Tor that reason the possibility of a dragged-out conflict must be reckoned with. “Consequently, I believe we must not let the initial phases of an atomic struggle becloud our thinking. “Our plans must go beyond an atomic cataclysm with the strongest sense of emphasis and determination that even under those unthinkable conditions, free men still will fight to keep friendly territory and the seas from falling into the hands of an enemy.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 13
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