| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33343 |
| QUOTATION: | I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mister President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending on the breaks. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. filmmaker, Terry Southern, writer, and Peter George, writer. General “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott), in Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (film), weighing-up probable losses after nuclear combat (1963). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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