:07:00
- Forty million.
- Some difference.
:07:03
Areyou saying saving 40 million lives
is ofno importance?
:07:06
You miss the point, Professor.
:07:08
Saving those 60 million lives
is what's important.
:07:12
Face facts, Mr. Foster.
We're talking about war.
:07:15
Everywar, including thermonuclearwar,
must have a winner and a loser.
:07:19
Which would you rather be?
:07:21
In a nuclearwar, everyone loses.
War isn't what it used to be.
:07:25
It's still the resolution
ofeconomic and political conflict.
:07:27
What kind ofresolution
with 1 00 million dead?
:07:31
- It doesn't have to be 1 00 million.
- Even 60!
:07:34
The same
as a thousand years ago, sir...
:07:36
when you also had wars
that wiped out whole peoples.
:07:39
The point is still who wins and who
loses, the survival ofa culture.
:07:44
A culture?
:07:45
With most ofits people dead...
:07:47
the rest dying,
the food poisoned...
:07:50
the air unfit to breathe.
:07:52
- You call that a culture?
- Yes, I do.
:07:55
I am not a poet.
I'm a political scientist...
:07:58
who would rather have an American
culture survive than a Russian one.
:08:03
But what would it really be like?
Who would survive?
:08:15
It's an interesting question.
:08:19
I would predict...
:08:22
convicts and file clerks.
:08:28
The worst convicts, those deep down
in solitary confinement...
:08:32
and the most ordinary
file clerks...
:08:35
probably for large
insurance companies...
:08:37
because theywould be
in fireproofed rooms...
:08:40
protected by tons ofthe best insulator
in the world: paper.
:08:46
Then imagine what will happen.
:08:47
The small group ofvicious criminals
will fight the army offile clerks...
:08:51
for the remaining means oflife.
:08:54
The convicts
will know violence...
:08:57
but the file clerks
will know organization.