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Harry Truman: “The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.”

On the recordNovember 20, 1952
The weapons of destruction have become so powerful and so terrible that we can't even think of another all-out war.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Meeting of an Orientation Course Conducted by the CIA.

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