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Another researcher involved in the project, MIT psychiatrist Eric S. Chivian, said yesterday he plans to focus on children's reactions to nuclear...
...Chivian--who has already filmed interviews with first-through ninth-graders in the Boston area--hopes to speak with Soviet children on their feelings towards nuclear...
...Even kids in the first grade are talking about their fears," Chivian said, and that dread "translates into a fear that they may not grow up." The implications of this fear are far-reaching, because there is a great danger of raising a generation of children "some of whom have no belief in the future," he added...
...find it difficult to think about what will happen in a nuclear war, you are not alone. As Dr. Eric Chivian, an MIT psychiatrist, told Harvard's Convocation on Nuclear War last November 79 percent of the public surveyed "tries not to worry about nuclear war." And these attitudes persist despite--or perhaps because of--the view among 86 percent that their chances of surviving a nuclear war are 50-50 or less. As Chivian puts it, imagining nuclear war is a "little like looking at our own deaths. We can only do that the way we look...
Mack even suggests that the arms race may have devastating longterm effects on personality. Many children are "growing up without the ability to form stable ideals or the sense of continuity upon which the development of stable personality structure and the formation of serviceable ideals depends." Chivian goes further, wondering. "What is going to happen to a generation of people that may have great difficulty making long-term commitments and relationships...