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One Summer Day, While I Was Walking Along The Country Road On The Farm Where I Was Born, A Section Of The Stone Wall Opposite Me, And Not More Than Three Or Four Yards Distant, Suddenly Fell Down. Amid The General Stillness And Immobility About Me The Effect Was Quite Startling. ... It Was The Sudden Summing Up Of Half A Century Or More Of Atomic Changes In The Material Of The Wall. A Grain Or Two Of Sand Yielded To The Pressure Of Long Years, And Gravity Did The Rest.

Literature Is An Investment Of Genius Which Pays Dividends To All Subsequent Times.

The Budget For Nuclear Forces In The United States Is On The Order Of $25 Billion Or So. That Includes Warheads, Delivery Systems, Command And Control; Does Not Include Environmental Clean-up, Which Is Another Maybe $10 Billion Or So. So That's About 5% Of The U.s. Military Budget.

I Go To Nature To Be Soothed And Healed, And To Have My Senses Put In Order.

There Are Nine Countries In The World That Have Nuclear Weapons. There Are About 27,000 Nuclear Weapons Total On The Planet. The Countries That Have Nuclear Weapons Deploy Them Ready For Use And Have Doctrines Saying That They Would Use Them In Certain Circumstances.