Rod Serling was a television producer and screenwriter best known for his acclaimed series The Twilight Zone. As the narrator for the show and a novelist, Serling used fantasy and science fiction to sidestep heightened conservative sensitivities of the time in order to ask moral and political questions. He also co-wrote the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes with Michael Wilson. Traveler through another dimension.
 

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs, and explosions, and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy; and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.”

– from "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," The Twilight Zone