"For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them away, so will be the coming of the Son of man."

A man I know, a professor at a nearby university, has decided not to do any reading, writing, or speaking, until we get a total freeze on nuclear weapons. The way he sees it, the Bomb is so awful, the dangers that it poses to life on earth are so awesome, that the pursuit of normal academic activities, or for that matter, most other activity, is pointless until we do something about the most determinative factor in the modem world. In his mind, the Bomb has rendered pointless every aspect of human life other than that given over to the destruc…