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Survival in such an unhappy eventuality would depend largely on what prior precautions had been taken by individuals and families for their own safety, in line with the recommendations of the civil defense authorities. This, I believe, is a point so important that you cannot over-stress it to the American people. I stress "prior precautions" because post=attack measures may be too late.

— Lewis Strauss

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Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes [nuclear generated] electrical energy too cheap to meter.

The Commission’s [AEC] program is directed toward encouraging development of the uses of atomic energy in the framework of the American free enterprise system.

The survival of our people -- and the work of you who are charged with protecting the lives of our people -- demands such prudence.

Proficiency in the technology of nuclear weapons, and indeed of science and engineering generally, is not so much of an American monopoly as popular misconception once would have had it.

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