Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

Today, the United States' stockpile of atomic weapons... exceeds by many times the explosive equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every theatre of war in all of the years of World War II.

Context

Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, New York City

12/07/1953

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