BLACK THE H-BOMB— & THE BASES!
By Peter Fryer
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OW can we prevent the building of rocket bases on British soil, with everything that terrible and sombre step will imply? How can we stop hydrogen-bombers from flying continuously in our skies? How can we end, once and for all, the menace of the hydrogen bomb? How can we prevent a third world war, in which our island with its dense population and concentrated industry would be a target for swift and crushing nuclear retaliation?
These are the questions in the minds of millions of British men and women who have been horrified by the Anglo-American agreement for rocket bases. to be established in Yorkshire; Lincolnshire and East Anglia, and who want to end. this madness that could lead to national suicide. -Solemn warnings are being given by eminent. scientists and publicists. Bertrand Russell says that ‘as things are now and as statesmen go, it is an even chance whether any human being will exist forty years hence’.
There is a spate of articles and pamphlets underlining these warnings with incontrovertible facts.
According to the Atomic Energy Survey, the strontium found in the bones of Welsh sheep has risen ten times—from 20 units to nearly 200 units—in the space of two years.
Strontium attacks children more rapidly than adulis: The. bones of two children who died early in 1957 were found to contain nearly twice the strontium discovered in any child in the previous year.