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¢ Last Saturday nearly 4,000.
‘demonatrators. at Kitsilano
Beach.* ‘protested | against .

nuclear weapons — one of |

“:60, such rallies’ aACToss North °
“America, For good measure
they ‘also. protested against -
‘racism,. rape . and various
.other social maladies. ~

‘A week ‘earlier, an- im-
pressive symposium. on the
same subject took place at
‘the University |. of .
‘Washington. The 1,200
Gelegates, mostly doctors
“and other professional types,
“were:. assured “by " learned’
speaker after learned
speaker that survivors of a
nuclear war would “envy the
dead”.

WASTELAND

.. They learned that a one-
megaton: bomb,’ equivalent
‘to 20 Hiroshima bombs, can.
‘set furniture on fire 10 miles
‘away; that-such’ a bomb on
‘Seattle would destroy over
80 per cent of its hospital
beds and kill or maim 60 pe
cent of its doctors; that there
would be no transportation,
‘no electric power, no plasma’
and little, if anything, to eat
or drink.. at ;
Disease would rage in a
wasteland of dead bodies

a TERRE

anti-nuke crusaders have reall thought the whole

cand dirty water.

‘megaton ‘bomb, Within 10."
years they estimate a nuclear’

particular,

my bacon. But I'can't help wondering whethe r the:

rotting corpses would cause
the_ ‘insect... ‘population “to,

~explode. » ‘The ozone : dayer ’
“would be depleted, bringing _
about” haywire.

weather.
Medicare simply” woulda't
exist.

That's” just the. . - one-

_exchange between the’ U.S. :
and Russia would amount to.

between 10,000 ‘and 20,000: -

megatons on each side. +
Okay, my tummy hag had |

“enough “for the moment.

How do we stop it hap-
pening?

Aside from splashing cow
blood on nuclear submarine
plants, the big new pian of
the B-T-B brigade is to have -

the United Nations hold a

worldwide ‘referendum | on.
the banning of nuclear.
weapons.

Unfortunately, even if it.
gets to that point, the UN's
track record in such matters‘
isn’t very encouraging. In
show do: you
organize.a ‘free public
opinion poll in the Soviet
Union or Communist China?
And why bother, anyhow,
when you. know the ‘answer
inadvance? | '

world except a handful. of

Around, however, it’ ia, in
“horrifying quantities © —
luckily divided fairly evenly

_ types that those arsenals will
_ inevitably be used. Both:

all is mit Bi strong. Come
Cink of it, that's why the wa

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“Obviously, nobody i in the |

Le

the rong. 7 “putton’
mistake. .But removing the
button. from Ronnie's seach
is’ no guarantee . of safe
until the other button, -
removed. from Leo i
reach.. _
. So far, all:
strators ‘and. ’ sympostu:

nuts in a few of its govern- .
ments wants The Bomb
around a moment longer.

between’ the two supér- iM
powers, And the idea of the delegates: in ‘the ‘igure wort
White’ House and = the have :
_ Kremlin meckly trucking’ ‘solution
their Armageddon. arsenals _.
away to some nuclear

garbage dump within any “balance of. terror",
measurable future simply Not a comfy way. ‘of i
doesn't add up. | but at vite make :

Nor necessarily, does the

nuclear. nr ar uawinnabl ie
contention of the anti-nuke.

sides in World War Two had |
big « stockpiles