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by
Michael A. Snyder
There is Good News! A wonderful world tomorrow is
coming-despite the threat of nuclear war today.
How
REAL,
thousands are asking, is the threat
of human annihilation by nuclear devastation?
"We'll be lucky to survive to the year 1990,"
asserts lecturer Dr. Helen Caldicott.
Dr. Caldicott, a native of
Australia, is a former Har–
vard University professor of
medicine and president of
Physicians for Social Respon–
sibility. In an interview with
the
Plain Truth,
she summed
it up: "Survival is the only
issue that matters. All other
issues pale into total insignifi–
cance.
If
we don 't do anything
about it [the nuclear war
threat ], within 1Oor 20 years
we'll all be killed anyway."
Despite intensive efforts to
educate the public, few realize
how real the danger of human
extinction is. Herbert Scoville
Jr., a former C IA senior official,
warns, "No threat to the future
of civi lization compares with the
threat of nuclear war."
Incomprehens ivel y powerful
weapons are poised to
erase
human
life-·
your
life,
my
life-from off
this planet. What can we expect as
the hope of the future?
rs humankind doomed as many
now believe?
The
GOOD NEWS
is that humani–
ty is
not
doomed! There is hope.
Listen to these words!
"If
those
days had not been cut short,
no one
would survive,
but for the sake of
the elect those days
wi/1
be short–
ened" (Matt. 24:22, New lnterna–
tional Yersion).
God will intervene and forcibly
stop
man at the last possible
moment from destroying himself.
But the Bible also reveals that man
wi/1
use nuclear weapons before
God steps in to save man from total
nuclear destruction.
What Could Happen
World media attention focuses on
the destructive nuclear capacity of
the United States and Soviet
Union superpowers. Comparative–
ly few look to the potential nuclear
capacity of other powers.
In addition to the United States
and Soviet Union, the Un ited
Kingdom, France, India and the
People's Republic of China are all