Shouting across the gulf
Mary Midgley, 18 October 1984
Greenham Common: Women at the Wire
edited by Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkins.
Women’s Press, 171 pp., £3.95, June 1984,0 7043 3926 9 Show More
edited by Barbara Harford and Sarah Hopkins.
Women’s Press, 171 pp., £3.95, June 1984,
Weapons and Hope
by Freeman Dyson.
Harper and Row, 347 pp., £10.95, May 1984,0 06 337037 9 Show More
by Freeman Dyson.
Harper and Row, 347 pp., £10.95, May 1984,
“... Is there anyone who can keep in focus both sides of the debate about armaments, who can see fully what is meant by both armers and disarmers? To the armers, who occupy most of the positions of power, British arms, and Western arms generally, appear as the natural and only possible response to a pressing danger. They look like a roof over our heads. To the disarmers, they appear as the main source of that danger ... ”
