Rationality Will Not Save Us.

...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 I Am Concerned, It Made No Difference... If My Memory Serves Me Correctly, We Had Some Five Thousand Strategic Nuclear Warheads As Against T Heir Three Hundred. Can Anyone Seriously Tell Me That Their Having Three Hundred And Forty Would Have Made Any Difference? The Military Balance Wasn't Changed. I Didn't Believe It Then, And I Don't Believe It Now..."

All Those Involved In The Firebombing Of Tokyo .. Were War Criminals Interviews Recorded In The Movie The Fog Of War.. The Firebombing Of Tokyo Occurred Before The Atom Bombs.. 100,000 Civilians Died In One Night From American Bombs.. 500,000 Altogether Over Several Days Say Some.

It Would Be Our Policy To Use Nuclear Weapons Wherever We Felt It Necessary To Protect Our Forces And Achieve Our Objectives.

The Greatest Contribution Vietnam Is Making-right Or Wrong Is Beside The Point-is That It Is Developing An Ability In The United States To Fight A Limited War, To Go To War Without The Necessity Of Arousing The Public Ire.

General, You Don't Have A War Plan! All You Have Is A Kind Of Horrible Spasm!