| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 237 |
| AUTHOR: | J. Robert Oppenheimer (190467) |
| QUOTATION: | We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, Atomic Weapons and American Policy, Foreign Affairs, July 1953, p. 529. |
| SUBJECTS: | Cold war |
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