The Atomic Dilemma

IN BOOK VI of Paradise Lost, the Angel Raphael is recounting to Adam the story of the war Heaven which resulted the fall of Satan and his followers. After a day of fighting, Raphael relates, the issue is still doubt, although the rebellious angels have received the more horrid injury. Gathered round their campfire that night, their leaders consider how they may overcome their disadvantage. Satan is persuaded that their inferiority is one of weapons alone, and he announces that he has already invented the instrument which will shift the balance. The instrument, of which several are developed and constructed at his direction during the celestial night, turns out to be a field gunwhich, as Raphael assures Adam, is likely to be reinvented by the latter's own progeny in future days, if malice should abound

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