Reagan :: Andropov

by Robert Darnell [date unknown]


Our Sunday morning paper, "The Houston Post," had an article by Carl Sagan on the possibility of nuclear war and the results.

The article prompts me as one small speck of a speck on this planet, an American citizen, to voice my protest against the horrible possibility of a nuclear war.

Mr. Reagan and Mr Andropov, you are the chosen leaders of our two countries. I would advise you post haste, now, today, pick, and assign, a task force of the greatest minds available from each country using the great computer hardware that we have available to solve the nuclear arms problem.

This is a unique planet that we have here, full of so many interesting living things, with its waters and lands.

None of us with minds want to see this beautiful thing blown up and destroyed by two factions which in the really great scheme of things are truly only minute.

Please, without posturing, politicizing, bullying, bettering, or forcing, put the two task forces to work at once.

In our business we say we don't have problems, only opportunities.

However, that might be it seems to me that you two chosen leaders in assessing your accomplishments -- such as invading Afghanistan or kicking the Cubans out of Granada -- would certainly prefer the accomplishment of eliminating the possibility of nuclear war.

I know that I am saying what is in the heart of every man, and I want to say it.

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