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“Perhaps you think I am come on purpose to quarrel with you, knowing Weston to be out, and that you must still fight your own battle.”

the atomic bomb has not roused so much discussion as might have been expected

But curiously little has been said, at any rate in print, about the question that is of most urgent interest to all of us, namely: 'How difficult are these things to manufacture?'

At any moment, so the rumour went, some lonely lunatic in a laboratory might blow civilisation to smithereens, as easily as touching off a firework.

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons

the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again

when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance

A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon—so long as there is no answer to it—gives claws to the weak.

American and French revolutions

Its combination of qualities made possible the success