:20:00
- Colonel Patton was a fanatic.
- That's what made him great.
:20:02
[Linkletter]
You think this guy is Patton?
:20:04
He's a dangerous lunatic, threatening
nuclear war, and he means it.
:20:07
What's that make us, since we're the
only nation to ever drop a nuclear bomb?
:20:10
It makes us a prime target.
There's a half a dozen...
:20:13
other Third World countries with
atom bombs who'd love to drop one on us.
:20:16
[Dougherty] That's right.
That's why we should drop one on them.
:20:18
Are you a communist? You have a problem
with us dropping nuclear bombs on Japan?
:20:21
- Shut up, Dougherty.
- You think it was a mistake, Mr. Hunter?
:20:26
Sir?
:20:27
Using the bomb
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
:20:33
- Well, if I thought that,
sir, I wouldn't be here.
- [Ramsey Laughing]
:20:37
- Interesting way you put that.
- How'd I put it, sir?
:20:42
Very carefully.
:20:44
[Men Laughing]
:20:47
You do qualify your remarks.
:20:49
Somebody asked me if we
should have bombed Japan...
:20:52
a simple, "Yes, by all means, sir.
Drop that fucker. Twice."
:20:56
- [Men Laughing]
- I don't mean to suggest...
:20:59
that you're indecisive,
Mr. Hunter.
:21:01
Not at all.
:21:02
Just, um... complicated.
:21:06
[Chuckles]
:21:08
Of course, that's the way
the Navy wants you.
:21:12
Me, they wanted simple.
:21:15
- Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.
- [Laughs]
:21:19
Be careful there, Mr. Hunter.
:21:20
It's all I got to rely on:
Bein' a simpleminded son of a bitch.
:21:24
Rickhover gave me
my command...
:21:27
a checklist, a target
and a button to push.
:21:31
All I had to know
is how to push it.
:21:32
They'd tell me when.
They seem to want you to know why.
:21:36
I would hope they'd want
us all to know why, sir.
:21:43
At the Naval War College...
:21:45
it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors,
not 19th-century philosophy.
:21:48
[Stifled Laugh]
:21:50
"War is a continuation
of politics by other means."
:21:53
Von Clausewitz.
:21:56
I think, sir, that what he was actually
trying to say was a little more...