weapon in the arsenal”; the British, by contrast, still see atomic weapons as marking “a completely new era in war” and “cling to the hope (to us fatuous) that if we avoid the first use of the atom bomb in any war, that the Soviets might likewise abstain.” Secretary Dulles, in his own account of these exchanges, noted that American “thinking on the subject was several years ahead” of Britain’s and that the British leaders worried that “there was a danger of our taking action which would be morally repellant to the rest of the world.”
