General, You Don't Have A

Management Is The Gate Through Which Social And Economic And Political Change, Indeed Change In Every Direction, Is Diffused Though Society.

...but Highly Placed Sources Within The Kennedy Administration Disagreed: "[t]he Assumption That The Strategic Nuclear Balance Mattered In Any Way Was Wrong... As Far As I Am Concerned, It Made No Difference... If My Memory Serves Me Correctly, We Had Some Five Thousand Strategic Nuclear Warheads As Against T Heir Three Hundred. Can Anyone Seriously Tell Me That Their Having Three Hundred And Forty Would Have Made Any Difference? The Military Balance Wasn't Changed. I Didn't Believe It Then, And I Don't Believe It Now..."

I Want To Say, And This Is Very Important: At The End We Lucked Out. It Was Luck That Prevented Nuclear War. We Came That Close To Nuclear War At The End. Rational Individuals: Kennedy Was Rational; Khrushchev Was Rational; Castro Was Rational. Rational Individuals Came That Close To Total Destruction Of Their Societies. And That Danger Exists Today.

Poor Planning Or Poor Execution Of Plans Is Simply To Let Some Force Other Than Reason Shape Reality.

They'll Be No Learning Period With Nuclear Weapons. Make One Mistake And You're Going To Destroy Nations.