Thirteen Days
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What is this gonna say
to the Russians?

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They look warlike?
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Jesus Christ
we're lighting off nuclear weapons

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like it's our own
private Fourth of July

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You know what?
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We should have brought in the guys
from the Atomic Energy Commission

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and talked this through
:18:14
Looked at these tests a little harder
:18:17
before just giving the go-ahead
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You know, last summer I read a book
"The Guns of August"

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I wish every man on that blockade line
had read that book

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It's World War One
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There's thirteen million killed
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It's all because the militaries
of both alliances believed

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that they were so highly
attuned to one another's movements

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and dispositions, they could
predict one another's intentions

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But all their theories
were based on the last war

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And the world
and technology had changed

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and those lessons
were no longer valid

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But it was all they knew
:18:48
so the orders went out
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couldn't be rescinded
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The man in the field, his family
at home, they couldn't even tell

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the reasons
why their lives were being destroyed

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But why couldn't they stop it?
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What could they have done?
:19:08
Here we are 50 years later
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Say one of their ships
resists the inspection

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and we shoot out its rudder
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and board
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They shoot down
one of our planes in response

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So we bomb their anti-aircraft sites
in response to that

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They attack Berlin
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So we invade Cuba
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And they fire their missiles
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Helen, I want you
to keep the kids close tomorrow

:19:53
I want you to leave the TV on
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I want you to sleep with it on
in the bedroom

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until I call you
and tell you can turn it off


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