ABSTRACT
From July 9 to July 14, 1989 an international conference on science, technology and world affairs met in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The summary conclusion by the conference chairman S.P. Kapitza of the USSR (he is the son of the Nobel laureate in physics) began as follows:
In attempting to sum up some of the deliberations of this conference, and I expect that is what I am to do, it would be best first to say why we are all here. We are here because the world is passing through a transition. With good authority it has been said that the Cold War is over. Now that a war is over, you have the victors and the vanquished. You know who won — Japan and West Germany. I suppose you can guess who lost. That is why we are now disarming ourselves. Losing this strange war is just as strange as fighting it. The war was never fought outright. Etc., etc. This was in July!
