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In accordance
with this afternoon's vote
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at the Organization of American States
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the quarantine
will hereby be effective
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as of ten o'clock tomorrow morning
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At eight a. m. this morning
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the United States
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detonated a hydrogen bomb above
Johnston Island in the South Pacific
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The blast was quickly condemned
by the Soviet Union
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who called upon all nations
to denounce the United States
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for bringing the world
to the brink of destruction
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Who the hell authorized the test?
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What is this gonna say
to the Russians?
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They look warlike?
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Jesus Christ
we're lighting off nuclear weapons
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like it's our own
private Fourth of July
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You know what?
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We should have brought in the guys
from the Atomic Energy Commission
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and talked this through
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Looked at these tests a little harder
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before just giving the go-ahead
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You know, last summer I read a book
"The Guns of August"
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I wish every man on that blockade line
had read that book
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It's World War One
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There's thirteen million killed
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It's all because the militaries
of both alliances believed
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that they were so highly
attuned to one another's movements
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and dispositions, they could
predict one another's intentions
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But all their theories
were based on the last war
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And the world
and technology had changed
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and those lessons
were no longer valid
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But it was all they knew
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so the orders went out
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couldn't be rescinded
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The man in the field, his family
at home, they couldn't even tell
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the reasons
why their lives were being destroyed