Morrison points out that since our country is more urbanized than the Soviet Union or Red China, it is the most vulnerable of the great powers -- Europe of course must be written off out of hand. He feels, therefore, that to seek a discontinuity in the arms policy of the United States is the least risky path our government can take. His proposal is opposed to that of Richard Nixon, Governor Rockefeller, past chairmen Strauss and McCone of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Edward Teller and those others now enjoying their hour of triumph in the exacerbation of the cold war. These gentlemen are calling for a resumption of testing -- in the atmosphere -- on the greatest possible scale, all in the name of national security. Escalation is their first love and their last; they will be faithful unto death.

Capable as their minds may be in some directions, these guardians of the nation's security are incapable of learning, or even of observing. If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation. He has gained only one thing -- he has exploded a 50 -- megaton bomb and he probably has rockets with sufficient thrust to lob it over the shorter intercontinental ranges. But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously. Not terror, but anger and resentment have been the general reaction outside the Soviet sphere.