Answer:
- a. The world's powerful weapons could destroy all of humanity.
- c. The cost of modern weapons is becoming too expensive for nations to afford.
- d. If nations work together, they can effectively fight humankind's common enemies.
Explanation:
Kennedy's inaugural speech is a milestone in the political oratory of all time. It is the speech that the whole President would like to have made in his possession.
Elegant without being affected, patriot without being mushy, intellectual without preoccupations of erudition, affirmative without being arrogant, a political piece without yielding to populism, speech is a rare combination of balance and greatness. Kennedy spoke to the US, but most of all he spoke to the world in the name of a new country that he believed to be emerging.
In his speech, Kennedy does not just define the changes, he goes further and interprets the new time, paralyzed by the nuclear threat, the cold war and the arms race. Kennedy also reaffirms his faith in the basic values of political freedom, and in the energetic confrontation of social problems, "a struggle against the common enemies of humanity: sickness, poverty, tyranny and war itself."
