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- From: receive@xxxxxxxxxx (Norma Loynd)
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:56:57 GMT
likely to discover. Although the Party, according to its
habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as
early as the nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about
ten years later. At that time some hundreds of bombs were dropped on
industrial centres, chiefly in European Russia, Western Europe, and North
America. The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that
a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence
of their own power. Thereafter, although no formal agreement was ever made
or hinted at, no more bombs were dropped. All three powers merely continue
to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity
which they all believe will come sooner or later. And meanwhile the art of
war has remained almost stationary for thirty or forty years. Helicopters
are more used than they were formerly, bombing planes have been largely
superseded by self-propelled projectiles, and the fragile movable
battleship has given way to the almost unsinkable Floating Fortress; but
otherwise there has been little development. The tank, the submarine, the
torpedo, the machine gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in
use. And in spite of the endless slaughters reported in the Press and on
the telescreens, the desperate battles of earlier wars, in which hundreds
of thousands or even millions of men were often killed
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