the atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms, of the extent of this development, of the utmost significance to everyone of us. clearly, if the peoples of the world are to conduct an intelligent search for peace, they must be armed with the significant facts of today’s existence.
my recital of atomic danger and power is necessarily stated in united states terms, for these are the only incontrovertible facts that i know. i need hardly point out to this assembly, however, that this subject is global, not merely national in character.
on july 16, 1945, the united states set off the world’s first atomic explosion.
since that date in 1945, the united states of america has conducted forty-two test explosions. atomic bombs today are more than twenty-five times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age dawned, while hydrogen weapons are in the ranges of millions of tons of tnt equivalent.
today, the united states stockpile of atomic weapons, 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 thea
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