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Page 302
... nuclear reactor and the commonplace practical result calls attention to a similar disproportion between the incalculable disintegrating power of absolute weapons and the trivial military results. Twenty years after the first atom bomb ...
... nuclear reactor and the commonplace practical result calls attention to a similar disproportion between the incalculable disintegrating power of absolute weapons and the trivial military results. Twenty years after the first atom bomb ...
Page 303
... nuclear pyramid may turn out to be not nuclear weapons themselves or some irretrievable act of extermination that they may bring about. Something even worse may be in store, and should it go far enough, be equally irretrievable: namely ...
... nuclear pyramid may turn out to be not nuclear weapons themselves or some irretrievable act of extermination that they may bring about. Something even worse may be in store, and should it go far enough, be equally irretrievable: namely ...
Page 487
... Nuclear absolutism, 254 Nuclear Age, parallel of, with Pyramid Age, 257 Nuclear bombs, 75; damage done by, 362 Nuclear catastrophe, youth's anticipation of, 372 Nuclear destruction, nightmare anticipations of, 234; traumatic effect of ...
... Nuclear absolutism, 254 Nuclear Age, parallel of, with Pyramid Age, 257 Nuclear bombs, 75; damage done by, 362 Nuclear catastrophe, youth's anticipation of, 372 Nuclear destruction, nightmare anticipations of, 234; traumatic effect of ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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