See, in the Navy, during the war, I got used to the idea that something might happen to me, I might not make it. Well, I also got ...used to the idea that my wife and children were safe at home, they'd be all right no matter what. But what I didn't reckon with was that in this, this kind of a monstrous war, something might happen to them, and not to me. Well it did, and I can't, I can't cope with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you really want to know who I think started the war?... Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough t...o blow themselves off the face of the earth?... The trouble with you is you want a simple answer and there isn't any. The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide. Everybody had an atomic bomb and counter-bombs and counter- counter-bombs. The devices outgrew us, we couldn't control them. I know. I helped build them, God help me. Some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something, knew that if he hesitated one thousandth of a second his own country would be wiped off the map, so, so he pushed a button. And, and the world went crazy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don't pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it... on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, it wasn't an accident, I didn't say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But i...t was a mistake. It was a beaut. In the end, somehow granted the time for examination, we shall find that our so-called civilization was gloriously destroyed by a handful of vacuum tubes and transistors. Probably faulty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My second husband was an American. We traveled all over the world and everywhere we went he would say to people, "I am an American.... I am an American." They finally shot him in one of those Eastern countries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »