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...sexual ercesses, drug taking . . ." A quick follow-up came from the Soviet embassy in London in the form of a letter purporting to be from a U.S.A.F. pilot who threatened to drop an A-bomb in the North Sea in order to awaken Britain to the dangers of having atom-armed U.S. planes patrolling in British skies. Despite quick exposure for what they were, the forgeries nonetheless created in some minds a picture of the U.S. as irresponsibly indifferent to the safety of its allies, fired the zeal of British and Japanese "ban the A-bomb" rioters...
...Begin . . ." But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from their present course-both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final...
Lanky, roughhewn Glenn Seaborg has more qualifications for running the AEC than mere desire. He is a top-rank nuclear scientist. He was a co-discoverer of the element plutonium, crucial in the development of the atom bomb. That achievement won him a 1951 Nobel Prize. His work in the laboratory has been continuously fruitful. Asked what he does, he answers with calculated simplicity: "I discover elements." To date he has been instrumental in adding nine more to the periodic table...
Cole admits that people who become cells in a unit of macrolife will have to surrender many cherished human freedoms. But so, he insists, will people who stay behind on the jampacked, atom-threatened earth. Except for unprogressive folk who insist on clinging to individual identity and the traditional attributes of humanity at all costs, Cole feels that a space-cruising, inside-out world with its controlled gravity and an artificial sun should prove a delightful place to live...
...Drop of Ink. From his rigorous criticism of such peace mechanisms as exist, one might expect Jaspers to lose hope for the future. Quite the contrary. Fatalism and despair, he argues, rise from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty that all will be dropped or that every last man will perish. If humanity is blackmailed into totalitarian slavery out of fear of the bomb, there is also no certainty that in tortuous, labyrinthine ways, man would not eventually recover his freedom...