{"id":60056,"date":"2012-08-05T21:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=60056"},"modified":"2012-08-05T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:34:37","slug":"i-would-sink-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/i-would-sink-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I would sink them all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60064\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/175+web-Hyman_Rickover_1955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/175+web-Hyman_Rickover_1955.jpg?resize=175%2C283&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"175+web-Hyman_Rickover_1955\" width=\"175\" height=\"283\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60064\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Admiral Rickover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation. Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not proud of the part I played in it. I did it because it was necessary for the safety of this country. That&#8217;s why I am such a great exponent of stopping this whole nonsense of war. Unfortunately limits \u2014 attempts to limit war have always failed. The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available.&#8221; Further remarking: &#8220;Every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a certain half-life, in some cases for billions of years. I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it.&#8221; (Economics of Defense Policy: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, 97th Cong., 2nd sess., Pt. 1 (1982))<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyman_G._Rickover\" target=\"_blank\">Admiral Hyman Rickover<\/a>, father of the Nuclear Navy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation. Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not proud of the part I played in it. I did it because it was necessary for &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;I would sink them all&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/i-would-sink-them-all\/\" aria-label=\"More on &#8220;I would sink them all&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}