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 “The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. Indeed, lying is the mother of violence.”---- Gandhi

• There is nothing comparable in our history to the deceit and the lying that took place as a matter of official Government policy in order to protect this [nuclear weapons] industry", said Mr.[Stewart]  Udall. "Nothing was going to stop them and they were willing to kill our own people. ..."The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy," Mr. Udall said in a interview. "It induced us to conduct Government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. Until the cold war, our country stood for something.”                                                --- NY Times 8 June 1993   http://nyti.ms/mGXKuh

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed"-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"National security does not mean militarism or any approach to it. Security cannot be measured by the size of munitions stockpiles or the number of men under arms or the monopoly of an invincible weapon. That was the German and Japanese idea of power, which in the test of war, was proven false..... arms become obsolete and worthless; vast armies decay while sapping the strength of the nations supporting them"- Dwight D. Eisenhower “The Long Pull for Peace”, April 1948

• "The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security."---Paul Nitze, A Threat Mostly Ourselves -      https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/28/opinion/a-threat-mostly-to-ourselves.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x04.kvcn.IOl6k8D78I80&smid=url-share

• "History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such."       -- Henry L. Stimson

• Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, said “there was never from about two weeks from the time I took charge of this Project any illusion on my part, but that Russia was our enemy and the project was conducted on that basis.— https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/The-Dropping-of-the-Atomic-Bomb-Ibid.-Volume-8-Spring-2015.pdf

• "We keep saying, we have no other course; What we should say is: We are not bright enough to see any other course" ----David Lilienthal, former AEC cochair

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