Nation of the dead

Less efficient machines required two-thirds of a century to assemble a nation of the dead the nuclear death machine could manage it in half an hour. The nuclear death machine has become capable of creating not merely cities of the dead or nations of the dead but a world of the dead. (Even before detailed studies appeared of the potentially widespread disaster known as nuclear winter, the World Health Organization had estimated— in 1982—that a major nuclear war would kill half the population of the earth two billion people.) Therefore, Elliot deduces ... 

Then industrial technology and applied science enormously amplified the nation-state s power and when the smoke cleared the cities of the dead and gradually the nation of the dead revealed themselves to view. Once men lose all grip on reality, observes Barbara Ward, there seems to be no hmit to the horrors of hatred and passion and rage they can dredge up from their psychological depths, horrors which normally we use all our social institutions to check. Unleashed nationalism on the contrary removes the checks. ... 

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