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« Since 1945, the American government has de- voted the better part of our national energies to preparations for wholesale human extermination This curious enterprise has been disguised as a scientifically sound method of ensuring world peace and national security, but it has obviously failed at every point on both counts. Our reckless experimental explosion of nuclear weapons is only a persuasive salesman’s sample of what a nuclear war would produce, but even this has already done significant damage to the human race. With poetic justice, the earliest victims of our experi- ments toward eenocide — sharing honors with eases bee Ae 88 Ore LET: 9 Hon Wi the South Pacific islanders and the Japanese fishermen — have been our own children, and even more, our children’s prospective children. Almost from the beginning, our investment in nuclear weapons has been openly directed against a single country, Soviet Russia. In our govern- ment’s concern with the sclf-imposed problem of containing Russia and restricting by force alone the ‘area of Communist penetration, we have turned our back on more vital human obtectives. Today the political and military strategy our Jeaders framed on the supposition that our country had a permancnt superiority in nuclear power is bankrupt, so completely that the business probably cannot be liquidated without serious losscs. As things stand now, we are not able to conduct even a justifiable police action, as a representative