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351 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. ix (1964)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0351 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD This volume records what could be the decisive turn of the world away from nuclear death toward continued life. It certainly records the revulsion of the great majority of the world's peoples against the continued poisoning of their lungs, blood, and genes by the cold-war antagonists. This issue records, almost as surely, the breakup of the two grand coalitions, whose quarrel has dominated the earth for some fifteen years. Where now is the great Red monolith of our nightmares? Even in East Europe, Moscow's writ runs less surely each year. What can the Kremlin do about little Albania? Nor can Washington any longer direct the West in solid phalanx against the East, with Gaullist France asserting its own leadership, not to speak of ordering the future of Cuba and Vietnam. Throughout the world, the little peoples rise, some few against the remains of white imperialism, all of them against poverty, ignorance, and control by any outside power. It is true that legions of dedicated Americans still contend that the test-ban treaty is only a tiny step and that we will never go on through many other stages in liquidating the Cold War. But, while they cling to its cherished certainties, a world in flux moves on relentlessly. Key aspects of these momentous changes are ably and sometimes vividly discussed in these articles. There is extensive consideration here also of the greatest internal issue of all: Can the great military-industrial complex, about whose dominance of our national life General Eisenhower warned so solemnly, be converted from fabricating the engines of annihilation to filling the great voids of our social needs at home and, to some extent, abroad? Four articles give evidence that this vital transformation from the spaceways of death to the earthways of life can be made-must be made, because the Cold War dissolves beneath the feet of our mightiest corporations and of our most earnest ideologists. Even our moon madness, so closely related to the Cold War, begins to abate. But surely, it will be said, there must be some way to cling to some of the profitable and comfortable certainties of the waning Cold War. Can a nuclear world war really be avoided? Is the German question not insoluble? Can the final pitiable folly of a third world war over Germany actually be averted by a settlement which is just to all Europe-East as well as West? Can we bring ourselves to live with Communist China as a Great Power, one determined that we shall not police her neighborhood? Is it credible that we are slowly moving toward a true world community, after all? These are the questions considered in the final group of articles. They are the issues of life and death for our civilization, for ourselves, and for our children. They cannot be solved by science or by computers. They are urgent human problems, and the nuclear age requires us to have informed judgments about them. D. F. FLEMING ix

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