Today every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness.
ATTRIBUTION:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Democratic politician, president. address, Sept. 1961, to the United Nations Assembly, New York City.
