Americans had built this machine, knowing, it turned out, that it would kill more than half a billion people if it were turned on (and they were unhesitant in reporting this to the president). Humans like that would not fail to pull the switch if ordered by a president—or, as I’ve discussed earlier, possibly on the order of a superior other than the president. And the presidents themselves? A few months prior, Dwight Eisenhower had secretly endorsed the blueprints of this multi-genocide machine. He had furthermore demanded, largely for budgetary reasons, that there be no other plan for
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