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The attitude of most of humanity towards its own destruction surprised me. In December, 1959, I had read Neville Shute's On the Beach and I attended a private viewing of its film. I was cast down by the deliberate turning away it displayed from the horrible, harsh facts entailed by nuclear war - the disease and suffering caused by poisoned air and water and soil, the looting and murder likely among a population in anarchy with no means of communication, and all the probable evils and pain. ... I was particularly distressed by the fact that I myself had praised the film directly after seeing it in what I came to think the mistaken opinion that a little was better than nothing.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.3 chap. 3
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