The President's statement (see above) was occasioned by an outbreak of atomic dithering among some top Government officials.
On the one hand, Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming said flatly in his quarterly report: "Soviet Russia is capable of delivering the most destructive weapon ever devised by man on chosen targets in the U.S." But Secretary of Defense Wilson, at his press conference, cast doubt on a suggestion that the Russians had a thermonuclear bomb "in droppable form." He added: "It may be that within a year they could drop a bomb, but they couldn't wage a war."
Civil Defense Administrator Val...
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