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HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
PASADENA CALIFORNIA 91123
Pasadena
December 18, 1983
Dear Brethren and Co-Workers with Christ:
Just how serious is the threat of NUCLEAR WAR? And HOW IMMINENT is
such unthinkable catastrophe?
Millions are deeply concerned. More than 100 million Americans watched
the televised movie The Day After on November 20. But half--probably most of
the viewers--turned off at the end of the movie and did not stay tuned for the
discussion that immediately followed. This discussion was not an argument, but a
sobering discussion between a number of important men who have been involved
as advisers to presidents on national foreign policy--especially in regard to
possible nuclear war. This discussion panel included the Secretary of State, a
former secretary of state, a former secretary of defense, a lieutenant general
who
has advised presidents on military matters, and others of similar importance in
evaluating the nuclear danger.
That discussion was seriously significant. The discussion subject was
primarily: "IS THERE TIME TO PREVENT this erasure of all humanity--this
rendering extinct the entire human race?"
Not one of these experts had any solution. They were simply a group of
bewildered men. They were pretty well agreed on some things: if a madman even
of a smaller nation started a small NUCLEAR ATTACK ON ANOTHER SMALL
NATION, IT WOULD START A CHAIN REACTION--THERE COULD BE NO
STOPPING UNTIL ALL MANKIND WAS BLASTED OFF THIS EARTH.
Yet the brunt of the discussion was war between the Soviet Union and the
United States. Already three other nations possess the hydrogen bomb and some
30 smaller nations already have nuclear weapons, with capacity for producing the
hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more destructive than the atomic bombs that
laid waste Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
How to stop or prevent a nuclear war from starting? No one had any idea.
There has been much discussion about a nuclear "freeze." But that would leave
the Soviets ahead of the United States and would prevent nothing. Already the
nuclear stockpile is sufficiently enormous to destroy all human life 50 times
over.
But there was one SIGNIFICANT FACT in all this discussion--and in all
discussions on TV and the public press since. Men and women are leaving the
existence of GOD totally out of their discussions. They are considering ONLY
what they as humans THINK they could or could not do--and no ideas of
preventing the prophesied coming nuclear war have been advanced. The world's
leaders are bewildered--HELPLESS!
They constantly use the term "I think," "I think." Yet they are unable to
think of any solution. They speak as if God is nonexistent--and indeed he is, so
far as their thinking on this greatest of all problems facing the world today.
And yet God says he looks down from heaven, and beholds the nations and