I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mister President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending on the breaks.
ATTRIBUTION:
Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. filmmaker, Terry Southern, writer, and Peter George, writer. General “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott), in Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (film), weighing-up probable losses after nuclear combat (1963).
