| Author Quoted | Tom Stonier |
| Title Quoted | Nuclear Disaster |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1963/12/15 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : Meridian Books. 1963 |
| Quotation | Reading Tom Stonier's Nuclear Disaster. A frightful book. Descriptions of the destruction, death and suffering at Hiroshima and Hamburg are already far more genuine than Dante's Hell. It is benign and humane by comparison. And what would the big bombs do? The thing is that this is not the aspect of the problem one should get obsessed with. If he does he runs the risk of seeing no positive hope-and really things are still not bright. But one must concentrate on every positive step towards controlling this thing and getting rid of it, however impossible that may sound. Merely contemplating the possible horror is no use at all. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 45 |
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