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- If, on the other hand, we were to immediately launch an all-out and coordinated attack on all their air fields and missile bases, we'd stand a damn good chance of catching them with their pants down.
- Hell, we've got a five-to-one missile superiority as it is.
- We could easily assign three missiles to every target and still have a very effective reserve force for any other contingencies.
- Now, six, an unofficial study which we undertook of this eventuality indicated that we would destroy ninety percent of their nuclear capabilities.
- We would, therefore, prevail and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian casualties from their remaining force, which would be badly damaged and uncoordinated.
- General, it is the avowed policy of our country never to strike first with nuclear weapons.
- Well, Mr. President, I would say that General Ripper has already invalidated that policy.
- That was not an act of national policy and there are still alternatives left open to us.
- Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth, both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation.
- Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing.
- But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable postwar environments.
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