How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"Some kinds of silliness you just can't stop. [...] If [...] people all decide that their national honour requires them to drop cobalt bombs [...] well, there's not much that you or I can do about it." (9.200)
This isn't exactly a comforting thought, but it's the truth. Peter and his fellow naval officials could spend a million years hypothesizing ways people could have stopped this tragedy from happening, but they'd just be banging their heads against the wall. In the end, the widespread proliferation of powerful nukes makes a massive world-ending war pretty much inevitable.