By the bomb's early light

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“FIRST REACTIONS TO THE MASSIVE ATOMIC BOMB.”

1. THE WHOLE WORLD GASPED.

-A. People were harshly confronted and addressed in a forthright manner. The issues of abortion and birth control that have been infused with so many emotionalisms were uplifted to an intellectual plane above what is the norm for the mass media.

-B. In August 1945 the United States used the atomic weapons to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombing was the first nuclear weapon used and it is estimated to have killed more than 129000 Japanese. As a result of this fear and confusion arose among the people and one wouldn’t say anything or raise any issue due to fear and confusion.

2. THE WORLD GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT.

-A. In the movement, E. B. White was not much interested in big ideas. He was at heart a notice, concerned in his essays for the New Yorker and Harpers and in his series of children’s books, with observation, humor, and pathos- the dailyness of people and places, language, nature, city life, and the meadows and avenues of the self. He professed to be by turns overawed and impatient with those he called, writing about a group of well- known liberal writers, intellectual idealists, and with their propensity to live in a realm of their own, making their plans for the world in much the same way that any common tyrant does.

- B. He was a humorist and practitioner of light verse, but finally White was a skeptic: he tended to steer shy of faith or political commitment and head for a more encompassing and aggregate morality grounded in most important notions of freedom and individualism. And yet here was in the 1950s, waxing poetic about the United Nations and its headquarters building of all things which he playfully termed as the little green shebang on the East River. In 1946, in fact he published a volume on world government called the Wild Flag .This book collected a number of anonymous editorials that white had written between April of 1943 and April of 1946 for the Notes and comment section of the New Yorker. The book advocates bringing all the worlds peoples together under one world government, one wild flag.

3. THE SUMMONS TO ACTION.

- A. A Americans thought and culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. The book by the Bombs Early Light was published in 1985 by, and it explored the cultural fallout in America during the early years of the atomic age. In this book Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long running debates about nuclear armament and disarmament developed and took shape soon after the bombing of Hiroshima. In a new preface, Boyer discussed recent changes in nuclear politics and attitudes toward the nuclear age.

-B. The Bombs Early Light book is based on a wide range of sources, including cartoons, opinion polls, radio programs, movies, literature, and song lyrics. Slang and interviews with leading opinion – makers of the time. Through this material, Boyer shows the surprising and profoundly disturbing ways in which the bomb quickly and totally penetrated the fabric of American life, from the chillingly prophetic forecast of observers like Lewis Mumford to the Hollywood starlet who launched her career as the anatomic bomb.

4. ATOMIC BOMB NIGHTMARES AND WORLD GOVERNMENT DREAMS.

-A. American society rapidly began to fear the very weapon that they had hailed as a means to bring world war two to a quick end. Many of the cultural institutions within America felt that it was their responsibility to educate the people to the true dangers the atomic bomb possessed.

-B. The Americans therefore were tired of this bomb and after the shock; they simply rallied and took the atomic bomb in stride.

5. THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS FROM BOMB- MAKERS TO POLITICAL SAGES

-A. Many of the cultural and societal organizations within the United States attempted to convince Americas to look for a solution to the atomic bomb and later the answer was developed. Majority of the groups believed that international control of atomic technology was the only proper and safe method to assure these weapons were to be never used again.

-B. To achieve this technological control successfully, most believed that a world government needed to be created where every nation would give up its national sovereignty to assure the survival of the human race.

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Bombs Early Light,

Book by Paul Boyer.