Churchill on War (2)
Part 2: What He Said in the Nuclear Age
In the immediate aftermath of the atomic bomb it was regarded by many as just another weapon of war. Churchill himself spoke privately of using it, or threatening to use it, to roll back Soviet advances in Europe in 1946-47, though not on the plenary level, and was pushing for a negotiated settlement with Russia by early 1948. At the 1953 Bermuda conference the British delegation was astonished to find President Eisenhower, and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, still regarding the bomb as conventional.…