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Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven,
From whence to man strange dooms be given,
Past hop or fear.
And the end men looked for cometh not,
and a path is there where no man thought. . .
- Euripides, Medea, Gilbert Murray trans.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1906)
Although pysicians frequetly know their patients will die of a given disease, they never tell them so. To warn of an evil is justified only if, along with the warning, there is a way of escape.
- Cicero, Divination, II, 25
I prophesied to my countrymen all their disasters.
- Cassandrea, in Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Smoke rises, the mist
is spreading.
Weep, my friends
and know, that by these deeds
we have forever lost our heritage.
- One of the last Aztec poems, written in 1521 on the eve of the destruction of Aztec civilization. From Poems of the Aztec Peoples, Edward Kissam and Michael Schmidt, trans. (Ypsilanti, Mich.: Bilingual Press, 1983)
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To our close colleagues in the discovery of nuclear winter, Owen B. Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, and James B. Pollack; to Paul J. Crutzen and John Birks for their inspiration and insight; and to the memory of Vladimir V. Alexandrov, who disappeared in smoke and dust.
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By 1982 it had become clear to the authors of this book - and to a few others - that the consequences of nuclear war might be far worse than had been acknowledged or understood by the civilian and military establishments of the contending nation-states. (Prologue)
Apollo, an Olympian, was God of the sun.
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From the halls of high Olympus, where strange dooms are stored for humans, there is reason to hope that, in our time also, there is a way out - a path where no man thought.