TODAY is the 70th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima an event unprecedented in world history.
Out of the blue comes the realisation that man has devised means of destroying the civilised world he has laboured so long to perfect.
This realisation raises questions which go to the very roots of our moral consciousness questions upon the answers to which the survival of our species may depend.
If the Germans had won, Nazism would have covered the face of the earth. But scientific superiority is no more a test of the justice of one`s cause than superior physique. The scientists of the Reich were mobilised for purposes of unspeakable foulness.
How is the new discovery to be directed and controlled? No sane person anywhere would leave these gigantic forces to be exploited by private enterprise. Even if their control is in the hands of one or more countries, are we in any better case? We are not.
We must evolve as speedily as possible, a world sovereignty which must control in use of atomic weapons.
We are confronted, in short, with a moral crisis, which we have no choice but to resolve. The new revolution in essence must carry with it a revolution in our hearts and minds. It rests with us now either to impose, once and for all, the rule of law throughout the world; or subject humanity`s future to blind hazard.
