Ho Certainty That A-Bomb Is Winner

Northern Advocate, 30 May 1949, Page 5

Ho Certainty That A-Bomb Is Winner

NEW YORK. Sun. (11 a.m.).—“The almost hysterical approach of Congress to the current atomic security investigations and its negative approach to the European arms aid programme both spring from the fallacious theory that as long as the United States retains the atomic bomb secrets, its security is ensured,” says the New York Times military writer, Hanson Baldwin. “Easy-war one-weapon theorists, with their strategical dependence upon the atom bomb and the longrange strategic bombei-, have sold a bill of goods to Congress and to the public that has caused us to put overdependence on the atom bomb and to guard it with almost panicky secrecy MAJOR REQUIREMENTS “There is no certainty that the atom bomb can win any war of the near future. “There is absolute certainty, however, that it cannot stop the Red Army, and that if we do not attempt to defend Western Europe by all means in our powei\ that region would be easily overrun in case of war.” Baldwin says major requirements for stopping the Red Army are tactical air power and mobile Tand power. “Our goal and our objective, therefore, can only be one—the defence of Western Europe,” he says.

“There can be no defence of it from outside Europe.”