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Herman Kahn's ponderous shocker, On Thermonuclear War, frequently mentions a weapon whose purpose is to end all human life: the Doomsday Machine. Kahn discusses its political uses as calmly as if it were a bug killer, but he gives few technical details. In the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Physicist W. H. Clark spells out some little-known facts about Doomsday Machines-and some of the more refined horrors that nuclear war could bring. Both the U.S. and Russia already can build near-Doomsday bombs, but far more disturbing is the fact that they are sufficiently inexpensive...
...year lease on a suite in a downtown building. But Luken was confident that his dissidents would remain in dissent. Said he: "Jimmy Hoffa is not ten feet tall. I think he's about five foot three.* Hoffa can send in his pros from here till doomsday and he won't get anywhere...
...Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Jack Kennedy for his dispassionate scientific judgment, he is constantly called on for advice on everything from missile nose cones to nuclear testing. He is no propagandist, nor does he see nuclear-age problems in black and white. He is deeply worried about the doomsday peril of nuclear warfare, but he does not let this emotion-charged subject, about which many scientists are bitterly partisan, drive him to stubborn extremes. In judging nuclear test ban treaties, he recognizes the difficulty of detecting clandestine tests, but he still hopes that the nuclear nations can come...
...satellite (see SCIENCE); the clean triumph of the new solid-fuel Minuteman ICBM; the Project Mercury shot and recovery of an "astronaut" chimpanzee*-President Kennedy's grim announcements seemed curiously out of phase, as if he had stumbled upon a copy of the Soviet Doomsday Book...
...influences human activity. Since man's environment becomes less and less influenced by 'natural forces' and more and more by social forces determined by man, he himself can take control over his fate." Enter birth control. Von Foerster declares that if mankind wants to avoid the doomsday of infinitely crowded population, it must establish a control mechanism, a "peoplo-stat," to keep the world's population at a desired level. This can be done at present by what he considers comparatively painless methods, such as heavy taxation on families with more than two children. "Tomorrow...