Science and Religion Must Join if World is to Survive H-Bomb

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSIONER THOMAS E. MURRAY, in BETTER HOMES & GARDENS:

MAN now can make weapons capable of reducing the world to the primitive conditions of the time of Cain and Abel. He even has, within the range of his grasp, means to completely exterminate the human race. Today, scientists can make a good educated guess as to the number of [bombs] needed for total world catastrophe—to scatter to the four winds, in a matter of seconds, the civilization it has taken man so many centuries to put together. No wonder some ask, "Are...

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