The New Peace Movement Part II

As nuclear energy and rockets are again revealing, science itself is intrinsically more revolutionary than any ideology or political or social movement. Merely trying to adjust to new scientific and technological discoveries imposes a perpetual revolution on modern societies. (Consider, for example, what social and economic effects would arise from discoveries—by no means impossible—of ways to synthesize food cheaply, manufacture gold in the laboratory or change human skin pigmentation.)

Nowhere is the revolutionary character of science more evident than with regard to war. War has proved one of the most resilient of all human behaviors, adaptable to an endless variety of conditions and times. It has been able to incorporate n...