Reflections in Mid-Winter

Imagination always lags behind intellect. We know that it is now possible for the whole world to be blown up by hydrogen bombs, yet we cannot really employ this knowledge: it does not come to us as a living image. It is therefore hard to react, except with a kind of numbed horror that goes beyond horror, to the news the Alsop brothers recently printed that a debate is going on “in the highest governmental circles” as to whether to test a “Super-Super” hydrogen bomb several times more ...