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“We (the DOE) are poisoning our people in the name of national security.”

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John Glenn, born on July 18, 1921, was a former United States Senator and astronaut from the United States. He was the first American to orbit the Earth and the first elderly astronaut in American history. Glenn made significant contributions in both political and space exploration fields and is hailed as a pioneer of the American space industry. more

“Ecology movements, futurism, feminism, urbanism, protest and disarmament, personal individuation cannot alone save the world from the catastrophe inherent in our very idea of the world. They require a cosmological vision that saves the phenomenon 'world' itself, a move in soul that goes beyond measures of expediency to the archetypal source of our world's continuing peril: the fateful neglect, the repression, of the anima mundi.”

Source: City and Soul: Uniform Edition

“While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning?”

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Author:Sam Nunn

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