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Assuming. then, that we are capable
of learning as much from Hiroshima as our forefathers learned
from Magdeburg, we may look forward to a period, not indeed of
peace, but of limited and only partially ruinous warfare. During
that period it may be assumed that nuclear energy will be harnessed
to industrial uses. The result, pretty obviously, will be a series
of economic and social changes unprecedented in rapidity and
completeness. All the existing patterns of human life will be
disrupted and new patterns will have to be improvised to conform
with the nonhuman fact of atomic power. Procrustes in modern
dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind
must lie, and if mankind doesn't fit - well, that will be just
too bad for mankind. 22
- Aldous Huxley, 1946
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