| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 32392 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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