AN ATOMIC WAR
INESCAPABLE REALITY NATIONS PLEDGES NOT TO BE RELIED UPON WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Lieutenant-general George Kenney, commander of the strategic air forces, declared that an enemy using atomio weapons could inflict 20,000,000 casualties and knock out United States industry on the first day of another war. General Kenney, addressing a women’* patriotic conference, warned that the United States must remain strong until world peace is secure. He added that in the next war a . devastating atomic attack would be delivered across the north polar basin. . _ - Vice-Admiral Blandy, chief of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, predicted that the next conflict will be aa atomic war, no matter what. is done during peace time to outlaw it. - “ International control of atomic energy will fail in war," he said. “ because the only deterrent will be the pledged word of the nations or the fear of retaliation, and neither can be depended upon." Vice-Admiral Blandy asserted that world disarmament would not be desirable until hatred, greed, envy, . and suspicion are no longer contained in the dictionary.
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Evening Star, Issue 26011, 28 January 1947, Page 4
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174AN ATOMIC WAR Evening Star, Issue 26011, 28 January 1947, Page 4
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