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1、-范文最新推荐- Atoms for Peace madam president and members of the general assembly:when secretary general hammarskjold¡¯s invitation to address this general assembly reached me in bermuda, i was just beginning a series of conferences with the prime ministers and foreign ministers of great brita
2、in and of france. our subject was some of the problems that beset our world.during the remainder of the bermuda conference, i had constantly in mind that ahead of me lay a great honor. that honor is mine today, as i stand here, privileged to address the general assembly of the united nations.at the
3、same time that i appreciate the distinction of addressing you, i have a sense of exhilaration as i look upon this assembly. never before in history has so much hope for so many people been gathered together in a single organization. your deliberations and decisions during these somber years have alr
4、eady realized part of those hopes.but the great tests and the great accomplishments still lie ahead. and in the confident expectation of those accomplishments, i would use the office which, for the time being, i hold, to assure you that the government of the united states will remain steadfast in it
5、s support of this body. this we shall do in the conviction that you will provide a great share of the wisdom, of the courage, and the faith which can bring to this world lasting peace for all nations, and happiness and well-being for all men.clearly, it would not be fitting for me to take this occas
6、ion to present to you a unilateral american report on bermuda. nevertheless, i assure you that in our deliberations on that lovely island we sought to invoke those same great concepts of universal peace and human dignity which are so cleanly etched in your charter. neither would it be a measure of t
7、his great opportunity merely to recite, however hopefully, pious platitudes.i therefore decided that this occasion warranted my saying to you some of the things that have been on the minds and hearts of my legislative and executive associates, and on mine, for a great many months - thoughts i had or
8、iginally planned to say primarily to the american people.i know that the american people share my deep belief that if a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all; and equally, that if hope exists in the mind of one nation, that hope should be shared by all.finally, if there is to be a
9、dvanced any proposal designed to ease even by the smallest measure the tensions of today¡¯s world, what more appropriate audience could there be than the members of the general assembly of the united nations. i feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new, one which i
10、, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. that new language is the language of atomic warfare.the atomic age has moved forward at such a pace that every citizen of the world should have some comprehension, at least in comparative terms, of the
11、 extent of this development, of the utmost significance to everyone of us. clearly, if the peoples of the world are to conduct an intelligent search for peace, they must be armed with the significant facts of today¡¯s existence.my recital of atomic danger and power is necessarily stated i
12、n united states terms, for these are the only incontrovertible facts that i know. i need hardly point out to this assembly, however, that this subject is global, not merely national in character.on july 16, 1945, the united states set off the world¡¯s first atomic explosion.since that dat
13、e in 1945, the united states of america has conducted forty-two test explosions. atomic bombs today are more than twenty-five times as powerful as the weapons with which the atomic age dawned, while hydrogen weapons are in the ranges of millions of tons of tnt equivalent.today, the united states sto
14、ckpile of atomic weapons, which, of course, increases daily, exceeds by many times the total explosive equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all the years of world war ii.a single air group, whether afloat or land base
15、d, can now deliver to any reachable target a destructive cargo exceeding in power all the bombs that fell on britain in all of world war ii. in size and variety, the development of atomic weapons has been no less remarkable. the development has been such that atomic weapons have virtually achieved c
16、onventional status within our armed services.in the united states, the army, the navy, the air force, and the marine corps are all capable of putting this weapon to military use. but the dread secret and the fearful engines of atomic might are not ours alone.in the first place, the secret is possess
17、ed by our friends and allies, great britain and canada, whose scientific genius made a tremendous contribution to our original discoveries and the designs of atomic bombs.the secret is also known by the soviet union.the soviet union has informed us that, over recent years, it has devoted extensive r
18、esources to atomic weapons. during this period the soviet union has exploded a series of atomic devices, including at least one involving thermo-nuclear reactions. if at one time the unites states possessed what might have been called a monopoly of atomic power, that monopoly ceased to exist several
19、 years ago.therefore, although our earlier start has permitted us to accumulate what is today a great quantitative advantage, the atomic realities of today comprehend two facts of even greater significance.first, the knowledge now possessed by several nations will eventually be shared by others, pos
20、sibly all others.second, even a vast superiority in numbers of weapons, and a consequent capability of devastating retaliation, is no preventive, of itself, against the fearful material damage and toll of human lives that would be inflicted by surprise aggression. the free world, at least dimly awar
21、e of these facts, has naturally embarked on a large program of warning and defense systems. that program will be accelerated and expanded. but let no one think that the expenditure of vast sums for weapons and systems of defense can guarantee absolute safety for the cities and citizens of any nation
22、. the awful arithmetic of the atomic bomb does not permit of any such easy solution. even against the most powerful defense, an aggressor in possession of the effective minimum number of atomic bombs for a surprise attack could probably place a sufficient number of his bombs on the chosen targets to
23、 cause hideous damage.should such an atomic attack be launched against the united states, our reactions would be swift and resolute. but for me to say that the defense capabilities of the united states are such that they could inflict terrible losses upon an aggressor, for me to say that the retalia
24、tion capabilities of the unites states are so great that such an aggressor¡¯s land would be laid waste, all this, while fact, is not the true expression of the purpose and the hope of the united states.to pause there would be to confirm the hopeless finality of a belief that two atomic co
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