HOW I LEARNED TO START WORRYING AND HATE THE BOMB and why you should, too.
HOW I LEARNED TO START WORRYING AND HATE THE BOMB and why you should, too. Trish Wood On a chilly Seattle night, sometime in the early 1980s, I was huddled in the front seat of a rented Volvo with John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most important intellectuals of his time. We were parked under a bridge near Ivar’s legendary Salmon House — me the eager and ambitious young reporter and Galbraith, an important Harvard economist who had counselled President John F. Kennedy. Patrician, elegant Galbraith was gracious when confronted with the makeshift studio I’d coaxed him into, away from the restaurant itself which was too noisy for a clean recording. At the time of our meeting, Galbraith was travelling to events in support of anti-nukes activism being propelled by doctors around the world. Spearheading the movement was Dr. Howard Hiatt — the storied former head of Harvard’s School of Public health back when PH actually meant something. Hiatt and Victor S. Weisskopf ,one of the father