PART ONE
Under the Nuclear Shadow

Richard Garwin, a designer of the hydrogen bomb, was called by Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi “the only true genius I had ever met.” Testifying to Congress in March 2007, Mr. Garwin estimated a “20 percent per year probability of a nuclear explosion with American cities and European cities included.”… My Harvard Colleague, Matthew Bunn, created a model that estimates the probability of a terrorist nuclear attack over a ten year period at 29 percent.

Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, and former assistant Secretary of Defense (Washington Times, April 23, 2008)

Return to sender,
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Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, 1962

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heeds the things which are written in it; for the time is near.

Revelation 1:3