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Orb, v. 2, issue 1, 1950
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at the crossroads... Children's alphabet books in the future may very well read A is for apple and aardvark, B is for boat...with nothing unusual until we come to the entry H is for house and hydrogen bomb. Gruesome thought isn't it? We should not be particularly shocked to see this. It would merely be another indicator showing how far we have stepped in the wrong direction. Protons, neutrons, and electrons exist in all materials on this green sphere. Equally international in scope is science. What is known to one government will unquestionably be known to all within a reasonable period of time. Let us imagine, if we dare, the millions of degrees centigrade of the sun's interior bursting upon our sense. The deadly radiation cascading in all directions, the shock wave, the pressure wave riving our steel and concrete. Yet this is what we are briskly walking toward. Why are we so coy? Let us run madly to this crashing cataclysm that threatens to overwhelm us. Or shall we stop a moment and think for perhaps the first time in our lives? We live on a fruitful green sphere. For untold thousands of years who has cradled us and nourished us. Should we be the asp in her bosom? What right have we to disturb her fertility? Ravage her beauty? We have evolved far beyond the primitive brute stalking in the forest. It is neither fitting nor appropriate that we should return to his murky and inadequate grasp of reality. Let us give our wholehearted cooperation individually and as a group to all attempts to close the breach between the east and west. Let us try to seal the gaping wounds, the souvenirs of World War II. It seems very much as if there will be "One World or None." I don't want to be killed by a hydrogen bomb, do YOU?
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at the crossroads... Children's alphabet books in the future may very well read A is for apple and aardvark, B is for boat...with nothing unusual until we come to the entry H is for house and hydrogen bomb. Gruesome thought isn't it? We should not be particularly shocked to see this. It would merely be another indicator showing how far we have stepped in the wrong direction. Protons, neutrons, and electrons exist in all materials on this green sphere. Equally international in scope is science. What is known to one government will unquestionably be known to all within a reasonable period of time. Let us imagine, if we dare, the millions of degrees centigrade of the sun's interior bursting upon our sense. The deadly radiation cascading in all directions, the shock wave, the pressure wave riving our steel and concrete. Yet this is what we are briskly walking toward. Why are we so coy? Let us run madly to this crashing cataclysm that threatens to overwhelm us. Or shall we stop a moment and think for perhaps the first time in our lives? We live on a fruitful green sphere. For untold thousands of years who has cradled us and nourished us. Should we be the asp in her bosom? What right have we to disturb her fertility? Ravage her beauty? We have evolved far beyond the primitive brute stalking in the forest. It is neither fitting nor appropriate that we should return to his murky and inadequate grasp of reality. Let us give our wholehearted cooperation individually and as a group to all attempts to close the breach between the east and west. Let us try to seal the gaping wounds, the souvenirs of World War II. It seems very much as if there will be "One World or None." I don't want to be killed by a hydrogen bomb, do YOU?
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