It has proved, perhaps, somewhat more difficult to split the atom politically than it has been to split it scientifically.
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
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Remarks to the Faculty and Students of the French Institute of High Studies for National Defense.
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