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Freda Kirchwey was a former managing editor, literary editor, editor and, ultimately, publisher of The Nation. She died in 1976.
This essay, from the August 18, 1945, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on nuclear politics and the global disarmament movement, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every Nation article since 1865.
The creation of the atom bomb is the greatest revolution ever accomplished in science--and unquestionably the most frightening.