That's One Of The Major Lessons: No

I Think The Human Race Needs To Think About Killing. How Much Evil Must We Do To Do Good?

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.

It Is True That At The Time [1962] We Had A Strategic Nuclear Force Of Approximately Five Thousand Warheads Compared To The Soviet's Three Hundred.

One Cannot Fashion A Credible Deterrent Out Of An Incredible Action.

I Want To Say, And This Is Very Important: At The End We Lucked Out. It Was Luck That Prevented Nuclear War. We Came That Close To Nuclear War At The End. Rational Individuals: Kennedy Was Rational; Khrushchev Was Rational; Castro Was Rational. Rational Individuals Came That Close To Total Destruction Of Their Societies. And That Danger Exists Today.