TERRIFYING POWER
ATOMIC _WEAPONS SUDDEN KNOCKOUT NORTH POLAR ATTACK? (9 a m.') WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Lieut.-General George Kenny, commander of the Strategic Air Forces, declared that an enemy using atomic weapons could inflict 20.000,000 casualties and knock out United States industry on the first day of another war. Genera! Kenny was addressing a women’s patriotic conference. He warned that the United States must remain strong until world peace was secure.
He added that in Ihe 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 an atomic war, no matter what is done during peacetime to outlaw it. ‘The international control of atomic energy will fail in war because the only deterrent will be the pledged word of nations or fear of retaliation, and neither can be depended upon.”
Admiral Blandy asserted that world disarmament will not be desirable until hatred, greed, envy and suspicion no longer are contained in the dictionary.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22240, 28 January 1947, Page 3
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