Prabhupāda: There will be no city. We don't want cities.
Bhagavān: What about our city temples?
Prabhupāda: No, no. For the time it may go on. But as we make progress, there will be no necessity. City means . . . for the present we have got. Because the city is there, we are there. But suppose the city is closed. We shall be there? If the city is closed, you still will be there?
Yogeśvara: No. But we can predict that the cities will go on for quite some time yet.
Prabhupāda: Yes, it will go on, but when they will see that your ideal community is better than city life, people will take to it. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 2.59). When one gets a better standard of life, naturally he will give up the lower standard of life.
Dhanañjaya: But won't the countryside be spoiled if there is an atomic war?
Prabhupāda: Eh?
Dhanañjaya: But won't the countryside be spoiled, become contaminated, if there is an atomic war?
Prabhupāda: Yes. The . . . what is called?
Bhagavān: Fallout? The atomic bomb?
Dhanañjaya: Radioactivity.
Prabhupāda: By atomic bomb . . . what is that? The . . . he says in your country that you divide the city. I just forget.
Yogeśvara: The result of the bomb?
Prabhupāda: Bomb will be utilized where there are big materialistic persons. Bombs are never thrown in the village.
Bhagavān: The bombs will be thrown in the big cities, where the industry is.
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.
Yogeśvara: The targets will be the cities.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They will be finished first. The bombs are never used for the villagers. Downtown, downtown. (laughter)
Bhagavān: The bombs will be throw downtown.