Chapter 69 Outline

Outline:

CH 69 THE MOUSE THAT ROARED AND NO PACEM IN THIS TERRIS

TIME LINE

1942    1943    1945    1949    1950    1951

                                                            hydrogen bomb

                                                jets to carry nuclear bombs

                                    howitzer to fire nuclear shell

                        Aug. 6&9 nuclear attacks on Japanese Cities

            Los Alamos labs established

Dec. 2: 1/2 watt explosion

NAMES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

Pacem in Terris, 109, 110, 111, 112 & 113

U.S., Great Britain, U.S.S.R., China, India, Pakistan, France

Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

109      it is with deep sorrow that We note the enormous stocks of armaments that have been and are still are being made in more economically developed countries, with a vast outlay of intellectual and economic resources.

110      The production of arms is allegedly justified on the grounds that in present-day conditions peace cannot be preserved without an equal balance of armaments.

111      people live in constant fear lest the storm that every moment threatens should break upon them with dreadful violence.  And with good reason, for the arms of war are ready at hand.  Even thought it is difficult to believe that anyone would dare bring upon himself the appalling destruction and sorrow that war would bring in its train, it cannot be denied that the conflagration can be set off by some unexpected and unpremeditated act. 

113      If this is to come about, the fundamental principle on which our present peace depends must be replaced by another, which declares that the true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms but in mutual trust alone.

Plutonium fission

U235

Marie and Pierre Currie

Hahn & Strassman

Enrico Fermi

Albert Einstein

Manhattan Project

Uranium hexafluoride

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Pasco, Washington

J. Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, New Mexico

Alamagordo explosion

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

20 kilotons to 5 megatons

Eniwetoh Island

Triad System:  Bombers (Strategic Air Command)

                        Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

                        Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles

Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles

Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties