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Commission for the Develop-
ment of Atomic Energy, con-
demned the dangerous position
of the Chinese leaders that
thermonuclear war is “not so
dreadful” and that afterwards
those people still alive would
“create a thousand-fold' more

wonderful civilization on the
ruins of the old.”
Do those irrational people

know what nuclear weapons
are? asked Emelyanov, and con-
tinued:

“Almost one third of my life
I have been working in the
area of uses of atomic energy,
and I am familiar with the
mighty power of the atom.

“During atomic explosions a
whole series of processes take
place.

“Enormous heat energy is re-
leased, as a result of which the
earth boils up and turns into
slag, into a molten, glass-like
mass. ~

“Thousands of tons of earth,
buildings and everything that is
in and under them rise into the
air in the form of vapor.

“Concrete, ‘brick and
turn into vapor.

“On such a molten soil,
thing can grow.

“Even worms perish.

“The released radioactive
emanation changes the atmos-
phere,

“The air would be saturated
with radio-active carbon di-
oxide and poison every living
thing, everything that cannot
live wouthout breathing.

“The products of radioactive

iron

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would be so terrible

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disintegration will poison all
water — rivers, lakes, seas and
cceans — they will be poisoned
by the radio-active products of
uranium and plutonium fission,
and instead of being a life sus-
taining liquid, they will be
deadly poison.

“No, the atomic bomb is not
a paper tiger—this is a terrible
weapon of mass destruction of
the peoples of the entire world.

“Those people are right who
maintain that post-war condi-
tions would be so terrible that
people, even if some of them
remain alive, would prefer to
die than to live.” .

Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus
Pauling has pointed out that
both the United States and the
Soviet Union have enough nu-
clear weapons to destroy each
other’s total populations several
times over. He put it this way:

“Using 20,000 megatons as
the amount necessary to de-
stroy the Soviet Union com-
pletely and my estimated 240,-
000 megatons for the present
U.S. stockpile, I may say that
we have a 12-fold degree of
overkill capability; similarly,
with 10,000 megatons needed
to destroy the United States
completely and a stockpile of
80,000 megatons, the Soviet
Union has an eightfold overkill
capability.”

Dr. Pauling reaches the con-
clusion that it is time to reach
an international agreement to
stop the testing of all nuclear
Weapons, to be followed by
other agreements leading to

general and complete disarm-
ament.

One would think that only
an imbecile would disagree
with this. But in an interview
with the Austrian paper Kurier
not long ago, given by Foreign
Minister Chen Yi and an un-
named “high-placed member of
of Chinese government,” the
latter is quoted as saying that
“a war in Southeast Asia would
not be a bad thing.” He added:
“If I were in the United States,
I would vote for Goldwater.
Goldwater would be good for
the USA and the entire world
because he would aggravate the
internal situation in the USA
and would greatly accelerate
the process of development.”

Less than a year ago in Pe-
king I was told by a middle
school student that the teacher
had informed pupils that the
U.S. nuclear bomb was only a
paper tiger, fit to scare timid
mice. Unless the bomb. scored
a direct hit, you would be safe
if you simply wrapped yourself
in a sheet of white paper, said
the teacher.

The blame for such abysmal
ignorance rests not with the
teacher, but on China’s leaders,
who have always feared to let
the people know the truth about
nuclear warfare. The leaders
themselves are not duped, as
is shown by the fact that they
are spending millions in a rush
program to try and develop an
atomic bomb themselves.

In this nuclear age, there is
no future for mankind unless
peaceful coexistence is achiev-
ed. And it is surely coming. In
all countries, more and more

people are realizing that the
struggle for peace is their most
important task. Despite Gold-
water and Mao Tse-tung, the
vast majority of statesmen in
the world today understand that
if civilization is to survive,
peaceful coexistence between
countries with different social
systems must replace war.

Soviet Premier Khrushchov
put it this way: “Modern society
has reached the stage when
each social system can prove
its advantages only in the field
of peaceful endeavor. Any at-
tempt to destroy this basic con-
dition of modern progress would
be fraught with a nuclear catas-
trophe. All people understand
this. And therefore victory will
be on the side of that society
which as it advances will help
to strengthen peace, and more
and more fully satisfy every-
one’s needs and interests. That
is our credo. We suggest to all
political parties: let us compete
in this field.”

The crisis in Vietnam today
must not be allowed to escal-
ate into a major war, which in
turn could explode into a world
nuclear war. The Security Coun-
cil should act to stay the hands
off the U.S. aggressors. The 14-
nation Geneva Conference
should recovene and negotiate
an honorable peace in Vietnam,
guaranteeing the Vietnamese
and Laotian people the right to
determine their own future. All
peace-loving peoples of the
world should tell the United
States: Hands off North Viet-
nam; end your aggression in
Southeast Asia.

August 21, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7