It gets worse... the earth, if looked after
properly, has an estimated lifespan of another
four billion years, but in 1983 there were two
false alarms of impending nuclear war every three
days. They say that such alarms are normal, and
present no problem provided they can be identified
as false alarms. I said in 1983 there were two
false alarms of impending nuclear war, every three
days, but in times of crisis with weapons systems
already on the alert, there is less than eight
minutes to decide whether an attack is underway or
not. And there are over forty conventional wars
going on in the world today. Times of crisis, you
might say. They say that waiting longer than eight
minutes would risk a surprise attack, and a loss
of command and control. In the trade this is
called the "use them or lose them"
problem, which translated means, if he's gonna hit
you, make sure you hit him first. Looking at it
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/Dffanother way, a single American strategic submarine
carries about 160 warheads, enough to eliminate
every Soviet ci ty of over 200,000 people. Of
course a Soviet submarine could do the same to
America. The nuclear weapons powers operate about
a hundred such submaries and on average there are
over forty at sea at any one time. A conspiracy of
two men, a submarine commander and his radioman,
could pretend to have received orders from above,
and launch a nuclear missile without actually
having received those orders. In 1983 there were
two false alarms of impending nuclear war every
three days. In 1983 Thatcher was re-elected by her
sleeping people. In 1984 Reagan was re-elected by
his sleeping people. In 1985... ...to determine
their destiny... ...let us move to a world in
which all people are at last free to determine
their own destiny...