"I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke."

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Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.

— Jane Smiley