The politics of nuclear weapons was still pretty much in flux at the time the book was written (if not published), the Soviets hadn't even detonated their first atomic bomb yet. I suppose it would have seemed possible back then to keep the genie in the bttle so to speak and turn the nukes over to a theoretically benevolent United Nations sponsored organization.
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Date: 2010-05-03 04:49 pm (UTC)