Since the first atomic bomb exploded, a few earnest scientists have been trying, like Dickens' fat boy, "to make your flesh creep." But it took a science editor to do a really competent flesh-creeping job. Last week Perry Githens, editor of Popular Science, gave Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club (advertising men) some thoughts to shudder over.
"For the first time in history," Githens said, "a new kind of war is now possible . . . This new kind has no name yet. Call it war without warfare . . .
"Begin by imagining a world in which there are only two preponderantly powerful countries...
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