The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.