“John Mortimer: Now that nuclear weapons exist, you have to face the fact that you would rather be conquered by, say, the Russians than have the world blown up?Thompson: Yes, I think so. Don't you?Mortimer: Better red than dead?Thompson: Yes.Mortimer: So, if nuclear weapons had existed in 1939, we would have had to accept conquest by Hitler to save a nuclear war?Thompson: Yes.”
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