Not Only Did He [dean Acheson] Not

We Know Now That In Modern Warfare, Fought On Any Considerable Scale, There Can Be No Possible Economic Gain For Any Side. Win Or Lose, There Is Nothing But Waste And Destruction.

Until The Last Great War, A General Expectation Of Material Improvement Was An Idea Peculiar To Western Man. Now War And Its Aftermath Have Made Economic And Social Progress A Political Imperative In Every Quarter Of The Globe.

If A Man Has An Apartment Stacked To The Ceiling With Newspapers, We Call Him Crazy. If A Woman Has A Trailer House Full Of Cats, We Call Her Nuts. But When People Pathologically Hoard So Much Cash That They Impoverish The Entire Nation, We Put Them On The Cover Of Fortune Magazine And Pretend That They Are Role Models.

Every State Has Not Only The Right But The Duty To Make Adequate Provision For Its Own Defense In The Way It Thinks Best, Providing It Does Not Do So At The Expense Of Any Other State.

And I Have Lived Since - As You Have - In A Period Of Cold War, During Which We Have Ensured By Our Achievements In The Science And Technology Of Destruction That A Third Act In This Tragedy Of War Will Result In The Peace Of Extinction.