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It is even possible to imagine the mobilization of enough anti-Communist strength to get—and keep—an agreement against international crime, atomic or otherwise. Back of such a mobilization would lie the free world's present armed strength, a strength in which Lewis Strauss's activities still play a critical role.
* And demonstrated other talents in a trans atlantic rhyme debate over the atomic bomb with the New Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius. Sagittarius, addressing the U.S., wrote: . . . Your thirst for righting wrongs we comprehend, We know the bomb's despatched but to preserve us, But, just between ourselves, as friend to It makes us rather nervous.
Frankly, we are not quite So anxious—seated on the launching site —As you, to see the atom dropped for Right . . .
Replied Physicist Teller, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: . . The atom now is big, the world is small.
Unfortunately, we have conquered space.
If war does come, then war will come to all To every distant place . . .
You rhyme the atoms to amuse and charm us—Your counsel should inspire, and not disarm us.