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"All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side."
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"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating."
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