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"NTelleali" and "do-nothing" have much in common,
of faith on the part of the American people.
Both call for a great act
In the fipetpease,
they are asked
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to believe that a spontaneous sharing of our presont{‘atomic
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mowledge will work
a revolution in the minds and hearts of men and so ora of atomic
war,
In the second case, they are asked to believe that the United States is
the only country to which the Lord wili see fit to entrust the bomb, at beast”
until atomic energy has become so plentiful that there will be nothing left for
men to fight about,
The two policies have another feature in common.
icies.
They are unilateral pol-
Under neither plan would the United States have to bargain with
_ sovereign states,
other
Only a solution which accords to each major power a position
in world affairs consonant with its position under the preeatomic age distribu-
tion of power will be cmsidered desirable by those great states who together
represent the minimm esscntial nucicus for agreement.
Nothing can guarantee the indefinite prolongation of such a pattern.
It is,
for example, possible that in a generation fifteen or twenty nations will have
the scientific and engincering knowledge and the industrial capacity to make
enough atomic bombs to destroy the major cities of even the greatest state,
In
;Such a situation, the Big Three will have become a Big Twenty, and states will
be equal in a sense hitherto unknown in our Western state system.
-is for the future.
That, howover,
If and when it happens, it will be time enough to negotiate
an international agreement appropriate to that pattern of power.
In the meantime, agreement must be sought on the basis of the present secognized pattern, the bipolar pattern of the super-powers.
In this pattern the
Soviet Union and the United States find themselves the nuclei of attraction
96.
see Chapter I, supra.