A neighbour of mine, who got a George Cross and
a George Medal for taking the more abstruse types of German mine to pieces during the last war, complains that every time the international horizon darkens his friends start asking him how he is going to like dismantling atom bombs. They don't seem to understand, he says, that as far as he is concerned there won't be any difference ; for him personally the consequences of failure will be exactly the same as they were last time, since the fate of being blown instantaneously to pieces is not one which can be made more unpleasant than it is already by the March of Progress. He also told me, what had not occurred to me -before, that a high proportion of the men who volunteered for his sort of duties were influenced by the fact that there was virtually no risk of being wounded.
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