The Nuclear Threat: Yesterday And Today And Tomorrow
I can remember as a child in the 1950’s and early sixties, the air-raid sirens, and everyone getting under their desk, or going to the ground floor of the school building and curling up with our faces against the wall. It was a game. It was like a fire drill, a chance to get out for a few minutes, out of our studies, out of our classrooms. Outside, for a short break, like a mini recess, to run, chat and giggle with our friends. I recall pictures and televisions programs showing bomb shelters, fully stocked with supplies such as bottled water, canned goods, blankets and first-aid kits. I can remember receiving instructions as a child on how to survive a nuclear bomb. They told us we ...
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us that we needn’t worry about such things. I remember my mother, a reminding me of a scripture in the Bible. She is a firm believer that the Bible is the word of God. She assured me with several passages, that God would not allow man to destroy the earth. She read me the passage in Isaiah 45:18. It states: For this is what Jehovah has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the true God, The Former of the earth and the Maker of it. He, the one who firmly established it, who did not create it for nothing, who formed it even to be inhabited. I am Jehovah and no one else.” She assured me that God’s purposes can never change and his original purpose in creating the earth can never change. I remember my father’s refusal to consider the possibilities, by simply stating “no one can ever be foolish enough to actually use these weapons. “ If anyone did the loss of life would be too great. There would be nowhere to hide; no way to protect anyone from the ultimate consequences, even ...
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world by satellite, and that persons of all nationalities and in many countries had seen it too. I reminded him of the reason the movie was made. The purpose was to warn us and remind us of the terrible way a nuclear war would affect each and every person on the face of the earth. If it bothered him so, then certainly it was having the same effect on the leaders of all the countries who had nuclear capability. It worked. He seemed to accept these explanations, and felt reassured by them. I was pleased these explanations eased his mind that night, but will they work tomorrow? Will they be sufficient for my grandchildren?
Most of the world breathed a huge sigh of relief when the ...
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