Dr. Victor Sidel about the need to continue to fight for nuclear disarmament. I don’t remember the details of what he said. But I will never forget what he did. He took a single BB pellet and held it up. He asked us to imagine that this was a thermonuclear weapon, a hydrogen bomb, one thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. He tossed the pellet into a large metal bucket that had a microphone attached to it. The scratchy ping when it landed and bounced was shockingly loud. Then he said, “And how many thermonuclear warheads do you think there are on Earth today?” He
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