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Gamer Ted Armstrong
SPIAKS OUT!
For Peaceful Purposes Only?
Get ready to live in a nuclear
world - with 1O, 20, 40 or
more nations armad with nu–
clear weapons . No matter
what the SALT talk delegates may
be currently debating, we are seeing
right now e veritable explosion of
nuclear power plant construction.
with the " have" nuclear nations in–
advertently lifting the "have-not"
nuclear natlons into the once-select
Atomic Club .
lt was recently revealed by Sena–
tor Abraham Ribicoff that nuclear
machinery with the potential for cre–
ating destructive weapons was
being supplied by Franca 10 Paki·
stan, Taiwan. South Korea, and Ar·
gentina. As a matter of fact, West
Germany ís also supplying nuclear
power plants to South American
countries, including 8razif .
This trend was further dramatizad
by the spactaclé of Prime Minister
M ikí of Japan recently being struck
to the ground by an uftra-rightist
Japanese nationalist, who beat him
in the faca with hís fists. while
screaming slogans about how Japan
should not ratify tl\e nuclear non–
profiferation treaty. (Japan has
signad the treaty, but the Japanese
Diet has yet to ratify it .)
1 have been- saying for years that
Japan is the coming super giant of
the Orient and that there are ultra–
rightíst torces even now operating in
Japan that may eventually come to
power.
1 have also saíd for years that
soine kind of configuration, pact, or
allíance would eventuaiiY' unite ten
nations of Europe into á nuclear su·
perpower and that Japan would be
the corresponding power of the East.
lt seems that despite the giant nu–
clear stalemate that exists between
the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.. other
lesser nations seem bent on creating
their own nuclear stalemate.
Apparently, utopía now repre–
sents that not-too-far-distant futura
when every country from the Central
American " banana republics" to the
newly emergent 81ack African na–
tions would have the capacity to in–
stantly oblitarate all other countries
on earth - many times overl (The
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theory goes that when all nations
have bombs, nobody will use them
- for fear of reprisal.)
For instance, it was recently an–
nounced that the Soviet Uníon
.would be willing, at least in prin–
cipie, to provide Ubya with a nuclear
research center, which would In–
elude a reactor for ..peaceful pur·
poses on ly." According to the
agreement. the Soviet Uníon would
provide detaíls for the project to lib–
yan authoritíes no later than Novem–
ber of this year, and the Soviets
would also train Ubyán officials to
ron that center.
Libya was very proud. Now she
can turn to Tunisia, Morocco, Al–
geria. Egypt, Sudan and say, "Hey! ·
look at us. We're got our own
brand-new, gleamíng, Soviet-built
nuclear reactor ... uhhh, for peace–
fuf purposes onfy. •• Then when they
explode a bomb in the desert, they
will be very careful to call it a "nu–
clear davice," and not a bomb. (lt
seems to me, however, that if it
bfows up, it's a bomb!)
8ut we' re supposed to be reas–
sured when these small but hostile
have-not nations are provided with
nuclear reactors "for peaceful pur·
poses." We' re supposed to believe
that they will use these reactors
peacefully, even though they don ' t
use their guns. planes, tanks. and
other weapons quite so peacefully.
At the rate of present nuclear·
bomb construction. the U.S. and
Russia are going to have e(lough
power to kili each other 100 times
over within five years. That projec–
tion comes from the respectad
Stockholm lnternational Peace Re–
search lnstitute, called SIPRI for
short. Their 1975 yearbook also as–
serts that the two major world super·
powers have accumulated more
than 40,000 of the "smaller" tacti·
cal nuclear warheads (which include
nuclear artíllery shells. torpedoes,
etc.) with a combin!ld explosive ca·
pacity of over 700,000,000 tons of
T.N.T. - the, equivalent of 35.000
Hiroshima-styte bombs.
And that doesn't include the more
powerful strategic nuclear weapons
delivered by missile.s. Once the de-
ployments allowed by the SALT
. talks are completed. the tw0 super–
powers would possess 17,000 war–
heads on missiles alone, plus severa!
thousand more nuclear bombs ca–
pable of being delivered by strategic
bombers. That's a doubling of their
present stockpile.
lf such a nuclear holocaust struck.
there might be a few Stone Age–
level survivors here and there, eking
out an existence in Africa. central
Australia, · ín New Guinea or the
Andes in South America. but that's
no concern of'you or me. lf you can
be reached by a mailman to receive
your Pfein Troth magazines, you are
also within the target sight of an
adversary's nuclear bomb.
The SIPRI yéarbook further stated
that by 1980. just five years hené:e,
the nuclear powers would have 11C·
cumulated 770,000 pounds of plu·
tonium, the key ingredient for
building nuclear bombs. And even if
safeguards would be 99.9% effec·
tive by 1980 (which they can't be,
won ' t be, and aren't today), enou9h
plutoníum could be diverted without
detection to create new nuclear
weapons at the rate of one a week.
lnteresting? No, it 's more than
that. lt's mind-bendingf
And do you know what triggered
it all? The excuse is the oil crisis -
"we' ve got to hurry up 10 produce
alternativa e'nergy sources." And, of
coul'9e, that source is nuclear. Com–
mitments to build nuclear power
plants outside the U.S. are booming
by an incredible 34% in just one
yearl
You can bet they won 'tall be used
for "peaceful purposes only."
In the May 9, 1975, edition of
New Scientist. Dr. Frank 8ar,.,aby,
director of SIPRI. cited some shock–
ing stetistics:
" World expenditure on military
research and development has for
some time been running close to
s20 billion annually - about five
times the money spent worldwide
on medica! research . Nearly hall a
million scientists and engineers -
roughly hall the wortd' s total scien–
t ific and technical manpower - are
employed on improving existing
wel¡po('lry and developing new
weapons. An effort of this magni–
tude cannot faif to produce striking
results. 8ut it is tragic that so much
of the world' s talent is being de–
votad to developing military rather
than civilian products.
" Thirty years ago, only five coun–
tries - the U.S.. the U .S .S.R.. the
U.K.. Cenada, and Sweden - were
major weapon producers. In the
meantime. the number has steadily
increased so that today there are
over 30 countries involved in this
activity. Others are manufacturing
weapons of foreign design under Ji–
cense."
And what is their motivation? Dr.
8arnaby goes on to say, " A main
motivation for funding military R&D
is to gain or retain superiority over
rivals, actual or perceived . Other fac·
tors include prestige, and the desíre
for independence from outside arms
suppliers. Whatever the motivations
may be. the effect of military R&D is
to fuel arms races."
He concludes by saying , " New
weapon systems emerge not be–
cause of a specific military require–
ment but because of the sheer
momentum of the procesa... ~
Further reports from SIPRI in–
dicate that in the "utopian" world of
the year 2000. 38 nations would be
producing from 13% to 85% of
thpir power by nuclear reactors. The
U.S. expects to replace current fossil
fuel consump.tion with nuclear en·
ergy production shortly alter the
year 2000.
This brings us to the problems of
nuclear wastes.
Sine& the first atom bomb, the
U.S. has amassed over 80,000 gaf.
lons of extremely dangerous nuclear
radioactiva wastes. and the bulk of
that is the byproduct from nuclear
weapons research programs, dating
clear back to the old Manhattan
projact . The remainder comes from
commercial nuclear power indus–
tries. And this poison survives not
just for a mere lifetime or two, but
it survives for hundreds of thou·
sands of yearsl
Of course, scientists feel they can
hide these poisons - by either
thrusting them out into space, or
burying them deep under the sea.
but what about the time when the
whole planet will be run on nuclear
power? How will we get rid of that
much nuclear waste, a dangerous
commodity that lasts virtually for·
ever?
ls it any wonder. then, that when
you read Matthew 24:21-22 and
find th3t Jesus predicted a time '
when all lile could be wiped off the
·earth, you are reading the accurate
ponrayal of the nuclear-armad twen–
tieth century? Christ said, " Except
those days should be shortened,
there should no ffesh be seved" (or
"~ved alive" as Moffatt translates
it).
Maybe you don't want to believe
in Jesus Christ returning to save a
warring planet from destroying it–
sell, but consider the alternativa -
total destruction of perhaps efl lile
on eanh.
As 1 am saying in my current se–
ries of radio broadcasts, the gospel
of Jesus Christ is newsworthy. lt's a
message about today's and tomor–
row' s news headlines. Jesus talked
about the potential death of our
planet. but then he added the good
news: " for the elect's 'sake, those
dar.s shefl be shortened. " O ·
WEEK ENDINO J ULY 12, 197S