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Nuclear Quotes by Robert McNamara
- It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.
- The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
- Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by…
- ...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as…
- It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.
- Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of…
- I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that…
- I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous
- Lesson 2: The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
- In the end, it was luck. We were *this* close to nuclear war, and luck prevented it.
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