The President of the United States has now given orders to build the hydrogen bomb - to create, in deliverable quantities, those chunks of the sun technically known as thermonuclear weapons... I believe that every morning each member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and each high official of the executive branch, should glance at the sun and reflect that what he sees there, millions of miles away, threatens to be recreated on this earth, in our own cities, in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. This is a time for soul-reaching, for nation-wide and world-wide debate, and for the launching and maintaining of that moral crusade for peace which alone can save us and lead mankind along the righteous paths of security, abundance, and liberty.
