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…showed last 75 words of 10630 total…eludes foolish and dangerous people on both sides of the Iron Curtain, who assume that on the other side, a first strike is being planned, a nuclear exchange is being actively considered, and therefore, arms control is an impossible dream or an undesirable snare. To them, Churchill replied, 40 years in advance: "What we have to consider... is the permanent prevention of war." This, he believed, was in the Russian interest as surely as our own.