Everywhere, someone wants to overpower you.
Beat you. Possess you. You live
in constant fear of attack.
In line with this, the sojourning alien learns about
the World Wars and the development of the Atomic Bomb. Before nuclear
bombs modern warfare had already changed the moral
and spiritual character of war. Modern warfare differed from all
previous wars in that it was waged with weapons that
the individual soldier could not control.
Modern weapons were all weapons of mass
destruction in that they indiscriminately killed vast
numbers of people at once—as such, the traditional military
and moral distinction between a combatant and
a noncombatant disappeared.
Continue—Intimate
Enemy
