○  英语演讲：atoms for peace  ○

apons, which, of course, increases daily, exceeds by many times the total [explosive] equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all the years of world war ii.

a single air group, whether afloat or land based, can now deliver to any reachable target a destructive cargo exceeding in power all the bombs that fell on britain in all of world war ii. in size and variety, the development of atomic weapons has been no less remarkable. the development has been such that atomic weapons have virtually achieved conventional status within our armed services.

in the united states, the army, the navy, the air force, and the marine corps are all capable of putting this weapon to military use. but the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might are not ours alone.

in the first place, the secret is possessed by our friends and allies, great britain and canada, whose scientific genius made a tremendous contribution to our original discoveries and the designs of atomic bombs.

the secret is also known by the soviet union.

the soviet union has informed us that, over recent years, it has devoted extensive resources to atomic weapons. during this period the soviet union has exploded a series of atomic devices, including at least one involving thermo-nuclear reactions. if at one time the unites states possessed what might have been called a monopoly of atomic power, that monopoly ceased to

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