“No amount of money would stave off a nuclear warhead.”

—  Poul Anderson , book The Boat of a Million Years

Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 328)

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926–2001

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