Comments on: Sci Phi Riff’s #1 http://sciphijournal.com/2008/11/08/sci-phi-riffs-1/ The Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:17:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: motters http://sciphijournal.com/2008/11/08/sci-phi-riffs-1/comment-page-1/#comment-4 motters Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:25:07 +0000 http://sciphijournal.com/?p=11#comment-4 The banality of some of these old public information films is scary considering what people would actually have experienced in a real nuclear attack. Curiously the nuclear weapons have not gone away - only the reasons for using them (new reasons could be manufactured at short notice). If you multiply the numbers of people killed in Japan at the end of WW2 by the numbers of nukes still in service today (a very conservative estimate) there are still enough to kill a large section of the world's population. It's a totally unfashionable topic, but reducing the numbers of nuclear weapons should still be a political priority if we want to have a long term future as a species. The banality of some of these old public information films is scary considering what people would actually have experienced in a real nuclear attack. Curiously the nuclear weapons have not gone away – only the reasons for using them (new reasons could be manufactured at short notice). If you multiply the numbers of people killed in Japan at the end of WW2 by the numbers of nukes still in service today (a very conservative estimate) there are still enough to kill a large section of the world’s population.

It’s a totally unfashionable topic, but reducing the numbers of nuclear weapons should still be a political priority if we want to have a long term future as a species.

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