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Robert C. Byrd: “The genie is out of the bottle, and we ought to do what we can to put it back into the bottle.”

On the recordMay 1, 1986
The genie is out of the bottle, and we ought to do what we can to put it back into the bottle.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
May 1, 1986

Editor's note · Context

Responding to the Soviet Union's silence about a nuclear accident endangering its citizens and neighboring countries.

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