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"I had the doubtful honor of presenting the theory of the big hole to the Russians in Geneva in November 1959. I felt deeply embarrassed in so doing, because it implied that we considered the Russians capable of cheating on a massive scale. I think that they would have been quite justified if they had considered this an insult and had walked out of the negotiations in disgust" (43).
— Jan 25, 2020 07:36PM
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"Since preliminary fusion-power engineering is already under way, however, it is a reasonable hope that a prototype of a commercial fusion reactor could operate in about the year 2000, and that fusion might contribute a few percent of the country's power supply by the year 2020" (191).
— Feb 02, 2020 05:32PM
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"When our secretary of defense, Caspar Weinberger, was asked whether it really would be possible to control forces and make calculated decisions amid the destruction and confusion of nuclear battle, he replied, 'I just don't have any idea. I don't know that anybody has any idea.' Surely it is reckless to stake a nation's survival on detailed plans for something about which no one has any idea" (140).
— Feb 01, 2020 10:10PM
