c/buckminster-fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.
…the political level where I assume things, where man is dullest and the most, he calls himself, brutally practical. But we have Eisenhower and Khrushchev coming together in Switzerland in 1954, ten years ago. We have the first meeting of the heads of all…
…had the bigger one, and shoot a little faster, and you always won. But suddenly, it was not so. When Khrushchev and Eisenhower came into top positions in the United States and Russia, respectively, their Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Kremlin and in the…
…they've never been mistaken for any altruism. They're going to lose. Now, we have them. This was a time of Khrushchev and Eisenhower coming into power that the joint chiefs of staff of all the great nations, power nations, realized that for the first time…
…in the history of man, they couldn't use the big gun. To use the big meant you'd lose. The meeting of Khrushchev and Eisenhower in Geneva to even discuss allowing their scientists to speak to one another across the Iron Curtain was to look into the…
…come to the conclusion, because you go back to Korea and you find it's before we really realized, this was before Khrushchev and Eisenhower, and it was before the Joint Chiefs of Staff had realized they couldn't use the big guns. It was only the United…