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.
