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(.7E'Ly gESt 26571 West Twelve Mile Road at Northwestern Hwy. 352-7030 Closed Mondays 2635 Coolidge, Berkley SOL & ANN RUDY For Father's Day !Competitive Prices On Everything JEWELERS INSIGHT USED from 559.96 Free Gift Wrapping 32940 Middlebelt Rd. at 14 Mile In The Broadway Plaza 855-1730 Mon., Wed. & Fri. 10-6 Sat. till 5:30, Thurs. 10-8 INC The Covenant Of All The Generations BY CARL SAGAN Special to The Jewish News Does the human race have "tenure" as a species on this planet? Let us look at the his- tory of the dinosaurs. What de- stroyed them? Probably a large object out of space about ten kilometers across, which carved a hole in the ocean bottom; created a tsunami, a tidal wave, a "flood," of unprecedented scale; and sprayed particles of smoke and dust high up into the atmosphere. These particles blocked the sun, darkening and cooling the earth, and wiping out the dinosaurs who were un- prepared for sudden chills. It's stretching things a little to say that the "flood" killed the dinosaurs, but still, this is suffi- ciently close to Genesis, chapter 6 through 9, that we can try to seek some further wisdom from the Abu' of Noah. In Genesis 6-9, after Noah twists God's arm a little bit, God promises Noah that there will be no more floods. But God reserves his options of other forms of planetary catastrophe. Such catastrophes are now within our own hands to make. Indeed, there is a midrashic tradition of a different sort of flood, a Flood of Fire, mabul esh: We ourselves have the capabili- ty to cause such a Flood of Fire - unprecedented devastation, worldwide, through our own ac- tions; unprecedented at least during the tenure of the human species on earth. We have, almost without not- icing it, accumulated, since 1945, 60,000 nuclear weapons, almost all of which are more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Think of it! Sixty thousand nuclear weapons! Of them something approaching 25,000 are what are called strategic nuclear weapons, meaning they are intended to destroy the homeland of the potential adversary. How many cities are there on the planet Earth? If we define a city as having 100,000 people or more, there are 2300 cities on earth. That means that the United States and the Soviet Union could completely wipe out every city on earth and have 20,000 strategic weapons left over with the targeteers wonder- ing what to do with them. What if we did much less than this - burned only between a dozen and a hundred cities - by no means a "large" nuclear war, Dr. Carl Sagan, of Cornell Universi- ty, is a world renowned astronomer and science writer. He recently re- ceived an award from the Shalom Center, a national center for Jewish perspectives on preventing nuclear holocaust, for his work on "nuclear winter" considering how huge the arsen- als are? From the burning cities and from forest wildfires also, the dust and smoke from air bursts and ground bursts would produce a thick cloud of dark, fine particles that would stay up in the atmosphere, block out the sun, cool and darken the earth, in a kind of parallel to what we think happened 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period of geological time. Our calculations indicate that the temperatures would drop be- low freezing for very long per- iods of time - not just 40 days and 40 nights, but in some of the calculations for years. The light levels would go down to some- thing like one percent of ambient average over the northern mid- latitude target zone. So that is a way of saying that nuclear war posits a fundament- al threat to all of us. Nations that might have contemplated sitting this war out find that they can be utterly destroyed without a single nuclear weapon falling in their territory, without any hostilities happening in their vicinity. Indonesia, say, or Nigeria, or Brazil, could be utter- ly wiped out by the destruction of agriculture, the cold, the dark, the disease, the radiation sick- ness, without any hostilities on their territories. So suddenly we find that we're all in this together. Suddenly it's not just the United States and the Soviet Union and Britain, France and China, to mention the five nuclear powers that have the ability to generate nuclear winter, but everybody. This is why just a year ago, the Secre- tary-General of the United Na- tions asked, - "By what right do the United States and the Soviet Union decide the fate of the human species?" A good ques- tion, one well worth contem- plating. Why do we have 60,000 nuc- lear weapons in the world? It's madness. Our calculation says that nuc- lear winter starts when you burn a dozen downtowns, so the threat of destruction of say ten major cities in the United States is pro- bably sufficient to deter us from doing absolutely mad things, and likewise on the Soviet side. So you can imagine a level of the world's arsenals sufficiently high that a sequestered retal- iatory force would be perfectly adequate to guarantee deter- rence, and at the same time be sufficiently low that no con- catenation of circumstances could lead to the Flood of Fire. Can we get from here to there? The present situation is a very critical one. It is a great oppor- tunity, and a great disaster if we don't take the opportunity. The .