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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
P.O. BOX 431 TUCSON, ARIZONA 85702
Pasadena
April 21, 1982
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers in Christ:
I have very frightening, very sobering--yet very reassuring--news! You
need the real FACTS on nuclear TERRORISM now threatening the lives of every
one of us. You need to know the imminency and REALITY of this impending
threat--but we need also to know the PROPHECIES about it and that the
assurance of God is also REAL!
Let me briefly summarize the existing FACTS of nuclear war possibilities,
frightening as they are--and the Bible PROPHECIES about it--and then what
prophecy says is actually GOING TO HAPPEN!
The world entered the Atomic Age 37 years ago this August. At eight
seconds past 8:16 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American atomic bomb was
detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. The violent shock wave produced by the
uranium weapon, coupled with the intense heat of its huge fireball, totally
devastated the city. More than 75,000 people were killed or fatally injured.
Three days later, the Japanese city of Nagasaki suffered a similar fate
at the
hands of another U.S. atomic weapon, this time a plutonium bomb. In two
awesome displays, the world witnessed for the first time the terrible power of
the
atom!
In November, 1952, the far more frightening hydrogen bomb--a thousand
times more powerful--was an awesome announcement!
The U.S. lead in atomic weapons' development was soon followed by the
Soviet Union. Later Britain, France and China became members of the so-called
"Big Five" nuclear powers.
For years these five nations were an exclusive club. They were in sole
possession of the knowledge and technology necessary to produce weapons of
mass destruction.
But not so today!
The "secret" of atomic and hydrogen military technology is no longer even
remotely secret. Possibly a half dozen additional countries now already secretly
possess nuclear weapons.
The shocking fact is that no less than 35 countries already have, or will
have by 1985, the technological know-how and the capacity to produce nuclear
weapons! These include Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Iraq, South Korea, Egypt,
Libya,
Pakistan, South Africa, Taiwan and Yugoslavia.
No corner of the globe will be safe from the specter of cataclysmic
destruction!