Article March 4, 1985 Issue

Nuclear holocaust: it's not inevitable

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

One of the interesting things about science fiction is that it often gives one helpful insights and metaphors for dealing with the present. In thinking about today's arms race, for example, I have often remembered a science fiction movie made in the

1950s called Forbidden Planet.

The space explorers who come to the planet discover that it was once inhabited by a gentle race called the Krell. At the very height of their civilization, the Krell were mysteriously destroyed by an invisible force of unimaginable power. All that was left was an immense underground machine of unknown use.

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