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"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies."
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"One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing."
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