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SHALL WE COMMIT SUICIDE?
-Churchill presages atomic warfare.-
1924
First Thus
Eilert Printing Co. [NY]
Biblio: (Cohen A74.1) (Woods A33)
8 x 4 inches (12 pages)
Pamphlet [Wire-stitched paper pamphlet]
Item Number: 18158
Description
Churchill presages the proliferation of chemical and [hypothetically] atomic weapons in this ominously prophetic essay, which first appeared in the September 1924 issue of Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine, before being published in the U.S. as this stand-alone pamphlet.
“Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings nay, to blast a township at a stroke? … As for Poison Gas and Chemical Warfare in all its forms, only the first chapter has been written of a terrible book.”
An extremely rare and important pamphlet, here lightly sunned and a touch foxed, but in very good condition overall.