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Title: Day of the Moron

Author: Henry Beam Piper

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Language: English

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DAY OF THE MORON
 BY H. BEAM PIPER
[Transcriber's note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction September 1951.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.]




It's natural to trust the unproven word of the fellow who's "on my side"тАФbut the emotional
moron is on no one's side, not even his own. Once, such an emotional moron could, at worst, hurt
a few. But with the mighty, leashed forces Man employs now....




There were still, in 1968, a few people who were afraid of the nuclear power plant. Oldsters, in whom
the term "atomic energy" produced semantic reactions associated with Hiroshima. Those who saw, in the
towering steam-column above it, a tempting target for enemyтАФwhich still meant SovietтАФbombers and
guided missiles. Some of the Central Intelligence and F.B.I. people, who realized how futile even the
most elaborate security measures were against a resourceful and suicidally determined saboteur. And a
minority of engineers and nuclear physicists who remained unpersuaded that accidental blowups at