fusion energy foundation

could well be a "three-way split; into rural-backward,urban-industrial and technetronic ways of life" that will"only further divide man."The "implications of a truly new era" will require a"universal intellectual elite" and a "world superculture"produced "inevitably" by "the network of electronic communication."This will also entail "creative interpreters ofthe new age" who will develop a concept of "regionalismwith due deference to the symbolic meaning of nationalsovereignty." This could all be best thrashed out at "aspecial world congress, devoted to the technetronic andphilosophical problems of the coming age."Brzezinski's "America in the Technetronic Age" laid thebasis for the initiating document of the Club of Rome,Aurelio Peccei's 1969 book, The Chasm Ahead. In thatbook, Peccei lavishly praised the then relatively unknownBrzezinski.In 1967, Peccei began his six-year term as head of theEconomic Committee of the Atlantic International Institutein Paris. That institute is the sister-organization to theAtlantic Institute in Washington, which shares its officeswith the Atlantic Council, the top NATO policymakinginstitution in the United States.By 1967, Peccei was just concluding an internationallecture series on "world order and the need for globalplanning." His new position gave him the vehicle to bringNATO into the center of these processes.In May 1967 and May 1968, Peccei coordinated twomajor conferences that pondered how to upgrade NATOas controller of the international flow of technology. Thefirst, a Conference on Transatlantic Technological Imbalanceand Collaboration, in Deauville, France, was cosponsoredby the Scientific-Technological Committee of theNorth Atlantic Assembly and the Pennsylvania-based ForeignPolicy Research Institute (run by U.S. Ambassador toNATO Robert Strausz-Hupe). The second, in Rome, theConference on Strategies for Atlantic Technological Development,was sponsored by the Atlantic Institute andthe Committee for the Atlantic Economic Cooperation,and was attended by 70 chief executives of leading corporationsand banks on both sides of the Atlantic.These conferences were key points at which the decisionswere made to put an end to the startling U.S.technological advances.As described by Peccei in The Chasm Ahead, the conferenceswere organized around the following theme:U.S. corporate leaders, such as David Sarnoff of NBC andJohn Diebold, in league with leading government agencies,had decided to steer the United States in a "postindustrialinformation economy" direction. Because ofthis, America was entering what Peccei called "the IBMage," while Europe was still in the "GM age." This wascreating a "technological gap" between Europe and theUnited States that threatened to rip asunder the AtlanticAlliance and create chaos all over the world, since onlythe Atlantic Alliance was fit to govern world events. Toprevent this "chaos," Europe would have to ditch itsindustrial development plans and follow the "informationeconomy" path demanded by the Anglo-American factioninside NATO. Meanwhile, the United States would gut itsspace program.In totality, this program would mean the Malthusiantriaging of industrial capital on a global scale. This would,of course, mean a collision at some point with the scientific-technological-militaryapparatus of the Soviet Unionand the Warsaw Pact. So, suggested Peccei, again citingBrzezinski as his source, the Warsaw Pact would be offered"convergence" with the Atlantic Alliance as the alternativeto "explosion." This "convergence" would lay the basisfor what Peccei labeled a "one world" government thatwould run global affairs on the twin foundations of "crisismanagement" ("limits to growth" and "shock treatment")and "global planning."Virtually simultaneously with these conferences, NATObegan to create institutional subgroups to undermine theSeptember 1980 FUSION 45