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2002-12-28 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-28 08:34 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...if I were a world conquerer, and had any plans for taking over the world, the first thing I would do would to be to build a great power plant, plutonium power plant, and then I would secretly develop atomic energy for atomic bombs from that power plant."

Senator Johnson (in) Atomic Energy Act of 1946: Hearings before the Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy, Use, and Control of Atomic Energy, Pt. 2, Dec. 5, 6, 10, 12, 1945 (1946), at 206

Posted by Richard 2002-12-29 01:26:24|| 2002-12-29 01:26:24|| Front Page Top

#2 A senior Bush administration official said the United States would be willing to hold low-level talks if North Korea had something constructive to say, but as one official put it, "there would be no deal-making."

I love it! This is the kind of rhetorical and political hardball that was missing during the first 95% of the Cold War.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-31 06:54:10|| 2002-12-31 06:54:10|| Front Page Top

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