Yet, in terms of constructive employment of atomic resources, we also know that:
1. Atomic energy may help solve the very problems that the new age presents.
2. Careful and controlled development of atomic forces will provide the reservoirs of energy that will be needed to sustain the world’s populations of the next century and beyond.
In whatever case, the solutions lie in the direction of environmental knowledge.
Man, the human animal, will live in the environment he has the intelligence to understand and to preserve.
“... All creatures are linked to each other ... in their dependence on limited environments that together form the whole of nature ...” (Page 3). (White-capped noddy tern nesting colony, Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll, photographed in 1965.)
SUGGESTED REFERENCES
Basic
Sourcebook on Atomic Energy, Samuel Glasstone, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1958, 641 pp., $4.40.
What is Ionizing Radiation?, Robert L. Platzman, Scientific American, 201: 74 (September 1959).