Word: saneness
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...SANE has tried, at great expense, to publicize the magnitude of possible disaster, and to exploit the consequent fear. This was not successful, because the very nature of thermonuclear catastrophe, in which whole cities and nations burst into flame, makes the horror impersonal. It becomes abstract, like the galloping leukemia rate...hardly relevant to any given individual...
Another member of the 150-man U.S. delegation, Homer Jack, 46, director of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, was booed and hissed when he denounced U.S. and Soviet atomic tests with equal bitterness, but when he contrasted the freedom of SANE to criticize the U.S. Government with the regime-controlled propaganda of his peace congress hosts, there was only shocked silence. Later, when a group of British, U.S. and Scandinavian youths started a ban-the-bomb march near the meeting hall, police snatched their banners and threatened to deport them as "provocateurs...
...however, is not the only kind of radioactive fallout that can get into milk; iodine 131 can become a problem too. But its threat does not justify the scare advertisement (showing a bottle of milk with a death's-head label) that the National Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy ran last week in the New York Times...
There is a great deal more of this. One swinsuit advertisement features a picture of a beautiful nude lying on the sane. The caption reads "How to be the one who's different, you, smiling that secret smile in Jetsam amazing water wearables, Miraculous Birthday Suit (design by House of Emperor) ends those soggy swinsuit blues...
Instead of "Give me liberty or give me death," SANE's cry is "Liberty is expendable...