Heroic USAF Captain Defied Orders and Stopped America From Starting World War III in 1962...

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28. It IS horrifying. One mistake with nuclear weapons can lead to the end of human life on Earth.

That doesn't bother some people.

Reagan Officials on Winnable Nuclear War

" . . . it is possible for any society to survive [a nuclear war] . . . nuclear war is a destructive thing but still in large part a physics problem." ----- Charles Kupperman Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)

Senator Pell: "My question is, in a full nuclear exchange, would a country survive?"
Eugene Rostov (ACDA): "The human race is very resilient, Senator Pell."

"You have a survivability of command and control, survivability of industrial potential, protection of a percentage of your citizens, and you have a capability that inflicts more damage on the opposition than it can inflict on you." ----- Vice-President George Bush on how to win a nuclear war

"Everybody's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around. Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top. It's the dirt that does it." ----- T. K. Jones, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense

"The United States must possess the ability to wage nuclear war rationally." ----- Colin Gray, Arms Control Adviser

"It would be a terrible mess, but it wouldn't be unmanageable." ----- Louis Giuffrida, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Question: Would democracy and other institutions survive nucear war?
"I think they would eventually, yeah. As I say, the ants eventually build another anthill." ----- William Chipman Federal Emergency Management Agency

SOURCE: http://legalienate.blogspot.com/2011/02/reagan-officials-on-winnable-nuclear.html

Which, knowing what they know, even if ant-like, is criminal.