Every citizen, every resident is better off under a world where the risk of nuclear war is much lower. Let's not make an accidental event trigger cataclysm. There were events that occurred along the way in which we thought the Soviet Union was launching a nuclear weapon at us. And there was an event in which the Soviet Union thought we were launching a nuclear weapon at them. But in part because of the relationships and the communication, in neither case did that start a nuclear war. (10:43–10:52)
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