Cicero's View from 100,000 Miles

How is the first picture of Earth from space the most powerful political picture ever published? Marking the 40th anniversary of the famous picture, a British newspaper, The Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/forty-years-since-the-first-picture-of-earth-from-space-1297569.html] , remarked that the three astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission “went to