"We have risked the fate of the earth, the fate of the species, on the mental stability of a few ambitious politicians who rise to the top of the heap, not necessarily because of their rationality." -- Ron Rosenbaum, "An Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age" from his book ...........................................How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
(Seriously, you need to read this story, and you need to say a prayer of thanks that men like Major Harold Hering are in service of their country, and not in the service of the bureaucrats & political hacks above them.)