Bomb Mentality
What, in terms of the species, is the greatest threat technology poses to man? Oil spills? Atmospheric pollution? Overpopulation? Chemical wastes? Chickenshit! All of those are reversable within a lifetime or two. But, there remains a peril that is, for all effects and purposes, a permanent damage.
Bomb Mentality
BOOKS
THE GREAT AMERICAN
BOMB MACHINE
Roger Rapoport
E.P. Dutton
What, in terms of the species, is the greatest threat technology poses to man? Oil spills? Atmospheric pollution? Overpopulation? Chemical wastes?
Chickenshit! All of those are reversable within a lifetime or two. But, there remains a peril that is, for all effects and purposes, a permanent damage. That is atomic bombs. So, you’d forgotten about those impolitic devices that used to keep people awake in the fifties. The tests of which kept everyone checking their milk for strontium 90 and cesium 137, whatever the hell they were. Well, it turns out they did not go the way of the tail fin; they have proliferated and have not ceased to be a danger to humans. Perhaps the threat of nuclear war has subsided as the major cause of fear, but slower, more insidious damage has continued to grow in spite of the Atmospheric Nuclear Test Ban.