Part 1 of Essay
I can remember as a child in the 1950’s and early sixties, the air-raid sirens, and everyone getting under their desk, or going to the ground floor of the school building and curling up with our faces against the wall. It was a game. It was like a fire drill, a chance to get out for a few minutes, out of our studies, out ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... the destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a child, I do not really recall feeling threatened by this. I do not remember being disturbed. Perhaps my parents did an especially good job of assuring us that we needn’t worry about such things. I remember my mother, a reminding me of a scripture in the Bible. She is a firm believer that the Bible is the word of God. She assured me with several passages, that God would not allow man to destroy the earth. She read me the passage in Isaiah 45:18. It states: F ....