...important matters, this panel concluded, "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." That judgment simply ratified the inevitable — the atomic bombing of Japan.89 Szilard, realizing...

...The key statement of their report read: "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." 12 It should be noted that the interim committee did not wait for this study, which confirmed its judgment....

...find ourselves closer to these latter views; we can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative...thoughtful consideration to these problems during the past lew years. \\e have. however, no claim to special competence in solving the political, social, and...

...find ourselves closer to these latter views; we can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use. The bomb was to prove to the Japanese that the Potsdam Declaration meant business. It was to shock...

...improve chances for an eventual agreement: "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use," the panel reported to the full Interim Committee on June 16.34 Oppenheimer, Fermi, Arthur Compton,...

...a discussion of which we have no record: "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to being an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use."19 That, so far as anyone can tell, was the end of it. We cannot be sure that a milder report...

...Nevertheless their report June 16 said: "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use."18 The secrecy surrounding the whole undertaking kept this agitation from the public and curtailed...

...technical rather than a military demonstration: "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use" (ibid.). Szilard's suspicions of both the Interim Committee and its Scientific Panel turned out to...

...panel's chairman, noted that the scientists could "propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." 25 "A light not of this world ..." The test of the plutonium "gadget" the following month, at a spot...

...June 16, the four scientists concluded: "We can propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." At that time, as some members of the seientific panel later grudgingly acknowledged, they knew little...