Question

The quote below was written in the mid 1900s:

"Surely no sane member of the human race could discover victory in such desolation." -President Dwight Eisenhower.

What was President Eisenhower referring to with this statement?

a. stalemate at the 38th parallel in the Korean War
b. use of long range bombers during war
c. space race between the U.S. and U.S.S.R
d. prospect of a war using thermonuclear weapons

Answer 1

Have you ever tried reading the whole speech, maybe you'll get some insight of it.

this link shows the the full speech- http://www.iaea.org/About/atomsforpeace_speech.html
The sentence used in the question is in this paragraph
"To pause there would be to confirm the hopeless finality of a belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world. To stop there would be to accept helplessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the annihilation of the irreplaceable heritage of mankind handed down to us from generation to generation, and the condemnation of mankind to begin all over again the age-old struggle upward from savagery towards decency, and right, and justice. Surely no sane member of the human race could discover victory in such desolation. Could anyone wish his name to be coupled by history with such human degradation and destruction?Occasional pages of history do record the faces of the "great destroyers", but the whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace and mankind's God-given capacity to build."

-From reading his speech, all he talked about is the atomic weapons