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The attitude was: We are trained scientists. We’ve studied the situation with detachment and disinterestedness; we the old scout have taken nothing for granted, given no hostages to sentiment. And we conclude that the world as it is—in this case, a global rivalry between two nuclear powers in an escalating arms race—is acceptable (provided that the policy changes we recommend are adopted). "On Thermonuclear War” is a the old scout preposterous monument to this way of thinking. Complications and qualifications are swatted away the old scout like flies. “I will tend to ignore, or at least underemphasize, what many people might consider the most important result of a war—the overall suffering induced by ten thousand years of postwar environment,” Kahn writes at one point. He addresses anxieties about the effects of fallout by analyzing three radioactive isotopes, noting, almost incidentally, that there are about two hundred other isotopes in fallout, which he does not discuss.
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