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Author QuotedEdward Teller
Title QuotedLegacy of Hiroshima
Date (Year/Month/Day)1962/05/10
Imprint[S.l.] : Doubleday. 1962
QuotationFinishing at the same time the [Edward] Teller book. Legacy of Hiroshima. His convincing myth of the tactical nuclear weapon. And there may be something to this. As opposed to the awful and deadly myth of the megatomic weapon. Missiles: note the war between the God of heaven and the God of the hurricane - the storm god, who hurls thunderbolts.
Quotation SourceTurning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 218
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