Nuclear tests
Sir, —The imminence of the French tests and the coldblooded attitude of those in charge recalls Thomas Merton’s Life by Edward Rice. Commenting on the trial of Adolph Eichmann, he remarked on the fact that a psychiatrist had examined him and found him to be sane. Merton says that we equate sanity with a sense of justice, with humaneness, with prudence, with the capacity to love and understand people. . . . “And it begins to dawn on us that it is precisely the sane ones who are the most dangerous.” He points out that there will be no danger from psychotics as the sane ones will keep them from the buttons. Sir, who will save us from the sane? Sixty American scientists, Merton says, petitioned the President not to drop the bomb without warning Japan and giving them a chance to surrender. Who will heed our petty few in the Pacific in 1973?— Yours, etc., V. H. ANDERSON. June 11, 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33253, 16 June 1973, Page 14
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