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Two soldiers are sitting in a foxhole under enemy fire. One of them looks at the other: “Man, you’re scared stiff!” The other replies: “If you were as scared as me, you’d have taken off long ago.”
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This text was first published in October 1983 in the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1 week before the decision by Federal Parliament on upgrading armaments. It was taken with a postscriptum into Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Bewußtseinswandel [Change of Consiousness] (München–Wien: Hanser, 1988): 71–88. It was translated for this volume by Ms. Ann Hentschel with the financial support of the Udo Keller Foundation.
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Horst Afheldt: Defensive Verteidigung (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1983); Horst Afheldt: Atomkrieg (München: Hanser, 1984).
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Bewußtseinswandel (München–Wien: Hanser, 1988), Chap. 2, Sect. 5 on the “invisible hand” is from 1972 and therefore some passages are surpassed by further scholarly discussion; compare there the “Postscript 1988.”
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Cf. Der bedrohte Frieden (München: Hanser, 41983): 574, 622.
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2015). Arms Race and Political Responsibility—About the Courage to Admit One’s Own Fear. In: Bartosch, U. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Pioneer of Physics, Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Peace Research. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13446-8_4
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