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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “The gains of illegal testing are obviously slight compared to their cost, and the hazard of discovery.”

On the recordJuly 25, 1963
The gains of illegal testing are obviously slight compared to their cost, and the hazard of discovery.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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