Thomas Gold is a writer and an activist, who has worked for human rights, peace, and the environment. His books include "The Terror of War", (1975), "Global Warning", (1981), "The War Puzzle" (1990), "World War Three" (1997) and "World War Four" (1999). He has also written for Rolling Stone, The Nation, The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, American Heritage Magazine, National Review, Reason, Mother Jones and many other publications. He was a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine from 1980-1989.
In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.Thomas Gold
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.Thomas Gold
