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Erich Fromm — Part 5
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of State Capitalism and that asa matter of practical fact
very little difference exists between the current American
and Russian forms of government. He stated that both goverpments
aspire to world domination. CONFI NT] AL
He said that both rations were loaded with nuclpar
* weapons. He stated that mest people were unable to suppress
7 a feeling of horror whenever they read or heard about human
torture carried out in castle dungeone during medieval days,
but that such tortures were net comparable to the pain, anguish
and terror experienced by the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
when the American atomic bombs dropped. ‘Such bombs were the |
equivalent ef one thousand tons of TNE, Today's bombs are the ©
equivalent of a million tons of TNT. One dropped ever Chicago
would kill every living thing within a radius of forty miles.
He said that a’ statistician named KAHN of Rand
' Corporation was engaged in preparing figures for the United
States Government on the possibility of survival following 4
nuclear attack on this country. He estimated that, providing
fifteen minutes warning was received prior to the dropping of
bombs, the nation would escape a single attack with a less of
approximately five million lives, ‘If the attack were te come
as a complete surprise, between sixty dnd ninety million people
would die as a result. _ FROMM said it was his own. ‘epinien that
even if a fifteen minute warning were received, ‘the vast
ct of tf mat
wont NTIAL
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