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SCIENCE AND
about immediate changes and create a happy, plentiful and prosperous world. This has failed to happen, however, and frustration among young and old alike has resulted. Instead science and technology have led to a situation in which the stockpiles of thermonuclear weapons, as also the number of nations holding them, is continuously increasing where hydrogen-bomb-ladened planes patrol the skies, and where inter-continental missiles are kept readied to take off to kill human beings by the millions. It is no wonder many thoughtful youths see no future before them and their world. Who can assure the hundreds of millions of men, women and children, who want to lead peaceful honest lives, that they and their children will not be reduced instantaneously to ashes at some unpredictable moment in the future?
The world is now at a crucial stage and must make a choice. Once the world has become knowledge-based as it is now, its future can be only on the basis of knowledge and never on its denial. It is a violent world we live in and violence is on the increase. The yearly expenditure on armaments is now in the order of two hundred billion dollars. All of this is terrible indeed, but there is also another side to the picture. Co-operation and friendliness, a solicitude for and willingness to contribute to the welfare of others, both within and between nations, is a marked feature of the contemporary world. The explosive growth of science, and with it of technology and industrialization, has created numerous problems although, at the same time, it has made possible the satisfaction
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