Disarmament
Sir, —Your correspondent Mr T. E. Shaw when he advocates the virtue of fighting to the end to preserve freedom apparently had not had the opportunity of hearing Professor Pauling. This topranking world scientist, with an intimate knowledge of all phases of nuclear weapons, quite dispassionately, and with true scientific detachment, pointed out that nuclear development had reached the stage where national physical fighting was now overruled. The stock in the world of super bombs, in which the A-bomb that killed 200,000 in Japan with one bang, is merely used as a trigger, can annihilate all life in the world about twelve times over. Total atomic warfare with complete annihilation would be humane, it was pointed out, compared with partial warfare. Fallout would be so intense that there would be a wholesale and worldwide mutation of genes resulting in births for generations of sickly deficient monsters.—Yours; etc., FACTS. December 1, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 3
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152Disarmament Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 3
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