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Our future in the atomic age. James B. Conant

In some respects, I think the position of the United States today in the international society is a very strong one. It is ob­vious, for example, that we wield today an unrivaled economic power. We have generated an enormous economic machine in the United States, and for a backlog or for whatever may come in the future this machine has a fundamental value.

Perhaps what ought to be said to those who are the mechanics of power is that as they view the problem they must somehow or other reconcile it with the democratic process and with the political instincts of a self-governing people.