"If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground."
— Russia

January 1, 1970

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Curtis LeMay, conversation with presidential commissioner Robert Sprague (September 1957), quoted in Kaplan, F. (1991). The Wizards of Armageddon. Stanford University Press, p. 134.