Author: ELENA BONNER
Date: November 17, 1986
The Americans I met were varied-primarily Andrei's colleagues, scientists, but not necessarily physicists; there were also politicians; people involved in the press, writers, actors-on the whole I would say they were the intellectual elite. I kept thinking that each of them seemed smarter than Andrei and me: they've all seen things, heard things, met people, read, and traveled-while we've been limited in those ways all our lives.
Many of these Americans speak out on 4uestions of disarmament war, peace. They talk about nuclear winter, star wars, pollution. About all the horrors that await man-kind. But when you meet them you under-stand that they are interested in living and that these problems interest them, too. They have no fear for the future-their own or humanity's-not the doctors who are against nuclear war, not the scientists who carry on nongovenmental talks about disarmament, not all ...
