Worlds Apart :
“I was involved in... issues of arms control during the Cold War …If we think back to the time of say the Cuba crisis Kennedy was quoted as saying he thought the chances were between 1 in 3 and even of having a nuclear catastrophe.
It is clear that the threat we were all under was a very serious one. I personally think it was so serious we shouldn’t have taken it If you’d have asked me is it worth accepting a 1 in 3 or even 1 in 6 chance of destroying Western civilization, if the alternative was certain takeover of western Europe by the Soviet Union I would not have thought the risk was worthwhile. “
Martin Rees
49th President of the Royal Society 8 March 2013
49th President of the Royal Society 8 March 2013
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“They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth. They are the focus of evil in the modern world....
So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation …to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. “
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States 8 March 1983
40th President of the United States 8 March 1983
‘Evil Empire’ speech
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