As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
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During my lifetime greater and more spectacular progress has been made in the physical sciences than in many centuries that preceded it.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
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