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Kennedy would have ordered nuclear retaliation on Cuba —and perhaps the Soviet Union— if nuclear weapons had been fired at United States forces.

— Robert McNamara

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Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme.

Charles E. Miller (2010)

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused through society.

Robert McNamara (1967)

I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all.

Charles A. Stevenson (2006)

Is it right and proper that today there are 7500 strategic offensive nuclear warheads, of which 2500 are at 15 minute alert to be launched by the decision of one human being?

The Fog of War (2003)

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it, necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

Herbert Y. Schandler (1975)

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