Letters: The Atomic Bomb

Sirs:

Congratulations on your matter-of-fact treatment of the scientific side of the atomic bomb [TIME, Aug. 20]. After having struggled with the Sunday supplement-like nonsense which the newspapers have been printing recently on the subject, it was welcome relief. . . .

(RT 2/c) JAMES ROSENBERG

c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco

Sirs:

. . . No one else has caught so well our sense of this still moment when we balance on the edge of the abyss and try to apprehend the heights which must be scaled.

GERTRUDE WILLIAMS

Stanford University, Calif.

Sirs:

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