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Harry Truman: “The thing that is at stake in this debate may be atomic war.”

On the recordMay 6, 1951
The thing that is at stake in this debate may be atomic war.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Address at a Dinner of the Civil Defense Conference.

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