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International Socialist Review, Winter 1959

 

Clean Earth

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.20 No.1, Winter 1959, p.20.
Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

Whether a clean bomb will be produced is still uncertain. What is certain is that the bombs already made can produce a clean earth.

“It would ... be possible,” said the Council of the Federation of American Scientists, Nov. 25, “for a fanatical ruler to pull down the entire human race to destruction. With a stockpile of the size that now exists, it is possible to cover the entire earth with a radiation level which for 10 years would remain sufficiently intense to prove fatal to all living beings on land.”

 
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