Are 50,000,000 Doomed in U.S. by H-Bomb?
Malenkov’s announcement Aug. 8 that “the United States does not have a monopoly of the hydrogen bomb” raises once again the question of Wall Street’s projected time table for World War III. This question is of intense interest to the generals, capitalist politicians and their billionaire backers. In the opposing class camp, the politically conscious vanguard is even more concerned about the question. It happens to be one of the most momentous that has ever faced mankind. Brian McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Commission on Atomic Energy, observed before his death that a few H-Bombs carried to Soviet cities would incinerate about 16 million people; but the same number dropped on American cities would mean about 50 million casualties. In addition to 50 million struck down, the inventory of the catastrophe to America would have to list the smashing of the world’s mightiest industrial complex. To think that America can somehow escape such fearful consequences in the projected w
