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Quote from Albert Wohlstetter,


"Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing one's guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational."


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Albert Wohlstetter (more quotes by Albert Wohlstetter or books by/about Albert Wohlstetter)


(1913-1997) American influential and controversial nuclear strategist during the Cold War, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan

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Fear, Learning

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