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...LOVE NOTHING but "brain chemistry"? Would "a relatively painless adjustment in mankind's sense of right and wrong" towards a more scientific morality prevent an impending nuclear holocaust...
...custom and experience work better than science to solve such a simple technical problem as electrical wiring, there seems little hope in using science to solve moral crises on the planetary level, such as the threat of nuclear holocaust to which Sperry returns again and again. Yet Sperry asks it to do so: "Ideologies, philosophies, religious doctrines, world models, values systems, and more will stand or fall depending on the kinds of answers that brain research eventually reveals...
...quit the Defense Intelligence Agency last year at the age of 74, after devoting most of his career to highly classified duties. A specialist in Middle East affairs, he also knew which targets in the Soviet Union would be hit under ultra-secret Pentagon war plans if a nuclear holocaust were to erupt...
...withdrawing a bid to publish the diaries, had unethically broken an agreement to keep secret the material that had been shown to Parker and a paid historical consultant in a Zurich bank vault. The major leak: the content of passages about Hitler's attitude toward Jews and the Holocaust, which Newsweek assessed, but which Stern had not planned to publish until next year. Said Stern's Koch: "That was a nice dirty trick. We would like to sue. We were cheated, and I guarantee Newsweek will regret what they did." By week's end, however, Koch conceded...
...disproportion between man's ability to eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear arms' capacity to eliminate man is the most tragic irony of the nuclear age. But if the first four decades of coexisting with nuclear weaponry proves anything, it is this: man cannot diminish the likelihood of nuclear holocaust until he comes to grips intellectually with the complexity of the problem and rejects the easy panaceas of both the Left and the Right. The authors of Living With Nuclear Weapons recognize this; perhaps one day they will be looked on as the men who brought the element of debate...