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...after all, the Bank of America had happily put together a syndicate to provide Mexico with $2.5 billion. Recalls Morgan Guaranty's De Vries: "It was like an atom bomb being dropped on the world financial system...
Mailer's subject matter provides a considerable sociological analysis. His insightful 1957 essay "The White Negro" is a prophetic vision of the hip consciousness that would develop in the next decade. Mailer said that the specter of the atom bomb and the fear of our collective death produced "the American hipster" who was predominantly religious and dealt with the fears "by seeking out the rebellious imperatives of the self." This piece also marked the beginning of Mailer's preoccupation with the New Left, which not only influenced radicals like Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin but also involved him personally...
...intelligent questions. I also wanted to seek his advice on how I could help others to learn about the nuclear arms issue. By this time I had learned a little more about him. I knew that he was a professor of chemistry emeritus. He had helped to build the atom bomb and in 1959 became the science adviser to President Eisenhower. Later he left Washington, becoming active in the arms control movement and now was devoting full time to his duties as chairman of the Council for a Livable World...
Kistiakowsky: No I didn't, but a lot of people did. I kept saying on all possible occasions that they are really a very poor country which is technically way behind. They have some spectaculars. They have the atom bomb. Now they have launched the Sputnik. But everything else is pathetically weak...
This first-hand view of the atom's destructive power--and his own role in unleashing that power--deepened Kistiakowsky's sense of the imperative need for peace in the nuclear age. "After working so long on those weapons," he said many years later, "I came to the conclusion that the time had come to control them." As a science advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson, Kistiakowsky earned a reputation within the highest circles of government as one of disarmament's most eloquent and distinguished spokesmen...