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Special message to Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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54 We will deter an enemy from making a nuclear attack only if our retaliatory power is so strong and so invulnerable that he knows he would be destroyed by our response. If we have that strength, civil defense is not needed to deter an attack. If we should ever lack it, civil defense would not be an adequate substitute. But this deterrent concept assumes rational calculations by rational men. And the history of this the century planet is sufficient to remind us of the possibilities of an irrational attack, a miscalculation,

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