...blueprint for world collective security in the form of Chapter VII of the Charter, a scheme that would give and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,...cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness." He, therefore, warned: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."1...

...this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,...cause of tension. The mere existence of modern weapons — ten million times more powerful than anything the world has ever seen and only minutes away from...

...danger that nuclear war might come despite everyone's best intentions at a time when every "man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,...moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness." And he ended his speech on the same grave note: "The events and decisions of the next ten months may...

...stimulated, mesmerized. A generation fell into a state of almost perpetual trance: Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,...cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness. 13 9. Sorenson, Theodore C. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, 1965, p. 324. 10. Ibid., p. 231....

...can win. "Joshua" calls off the launch, and the world is saved (at least temporarily). False Alarms the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness."27 The question four decades later is whether a computer could be the cause of such an accident...

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...this planet must contemplate that day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,...cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us." In what may have been his greatest...

...it may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear Sword of Democles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, miscalculation or madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. - John F. Kennedy....

...of this planet must contemplate a day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles,...weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. John F. Kennedy As someone who has lived through World War II, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

...delegates that war could no longer settle disputes or produce unconditional victory. All people lived "under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the...threads, capable of being cut at any moment" by accident, miscalculation, or madness. "The mere existence of modern weapons — ten million times more powerful...