(EDITORIAL) Ever since the victory-at-any-cost class of Americans let loose their atomic Frankenstein on Japan creating indescribable horror in those islands … its creators have been seized [with] unusual nervousness about how to control the monster. However much they may brag that the secret of the bomb rests entirely with America … beneath their swagger there is visible fear lest the monster brings disaster to its creators. That the secret of the mighty atom shall some day be uncovered by others also was tacitly admitted by Mr. Churchill (who also claimed a share for this infernal discovery) when he said … in the Commons recently, that the atomic bomb would make peace safe for at least four years. What would happen after that stipulated period even Mr. Churchill did not dare predict ...

Were it a fact that America and Britain alone know the formula, why are their atomic experts being hustled to Russia? ... Maybe, the Anglo-American experts are in Moscow with the object of comparing notes. … If President Truman and Mr. Attlee believe that the atomic bomb is beyond the reach of other scientists, they are … deceiving themselves. …

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2020