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A war today or tomorrow, if it led to nuclear war, would not be
like any war in history. A full-scale - nuclear exchange, lasting less than
60 minutes, could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans
and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors,
as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, "would envy
the dead". For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions
and poison and fire that today we cannot even conceive of all its horrors.
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