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..."

They'll Be No Learning Period With Nuclear Weapons. Make One Mistake And You're Going To Destroy Nations.

All The Evidence Of History Suggests That Man Is Indeed A Rational Animal, But With A Near Infinite Capacity For Folly. . . . He Draws Blueprints For Utopia, But Never Quite Gets It Built. In The End He Plugs Away Obstinately With The Only Building Material Really Ever At Hand--his Own Part Comic, Part Tragic, Part Cussed, But Part Glorious Nature.

Short Of Nuclear War Itself, Population Growth Is The Gravest Issue The World Faces. If We Do Not Act, The Problem Will Be Solved By Famine, Riots, Insurrection And War.

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