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When, however, the German war was finished the great majority of those scientists who had collaborated toward making the A-bomb considered that it should not be used against the Japanese, who were already on the verge of defeat and, in any case, did not constitute such a threat to the world as Hitler. Many of them made urgent representations to the American government advocating that, instead of using the bomb as a weapon of war, they should, after a public announcement, explode it in a desert, and that future control of nuclear energy should be placed in the hands of an international authority. Seven of the most famous of nuclear scientists drew up what is known as the Franck Report which they presented to the Secretary of War in June 1945. This is a very admirable and far-seeing document, and if it had won the assent of the politicians, none of our subsequent terrors would have arisen. 21. We may infer that the writers attitude towards the A-bomb is that______. A. it is absolutely necessary B. it is a terrible threat to the whole of mankind C. it played a vital part in defeating the Japanese D. it was a wonderful invention 22. The American and British scientists were astonished at the end of the Second World War against Germany because______. A. the Germans had been defeated without the use of nuclear weapons | 
