In my dreams, when a mushroom cloud appears at the distance – is a nuclear bomb really what I’m seeing? Is it war? Are the Russians, or the Iranians (or even – special relationship gone forever – the Americans) launching strikes against us? Am I witnessing the annihilation of the world as we know it?
Or is it something else? I read once that a nuclear explosion is actually only one percent of the potential energy of the bomb which creates it. Human beings, simple race that we are, don’t yet know how to tap into the full energy in the world around us. Indeed, if we could, there is so much energy untapped within our own bodies that we have the potential to blow up like nuclear bombs ourselves if we could harness it.
So what if the thing I’m seeing is new, not a bomb at all – a development far scarier and more powerful? What if the thing which brings the end of the world is something we only discovered how to do the day before?
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