FROM The Freeman LIVING WITH A BOMB ROBERT COULSON MARCH 1964 IN OUR DISCUSSIONS of world peace we have drifted into accepting a premise which is so strange that it cannot easily be put into words. It is this: that we owe a duty to Someone or Something to keep our institutions in existence for as long as possible; that there is some kind of competition among cultures to live longer than other cultures; and that the only true measure of a civilization is its longevity. If a...
