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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: It has proved, perhaps, somewhat more difficult to split the atom politically than it has been to split it…

On the recordMarch 24, 1963
It has proved, perhaps, somewhat more difficult to split the atom politically than it has been to split it scientifically.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Remarks to the Faculty and Students of the French Institute of High Studies for National Defense.

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