In going alone, he must have known that he was risking disaster.
To put his name before the public, he said, is to risk unspecified personal disaster.
The president was not sure enough about Trinity's retaliatory limits to risk disaster.
"Well, can you do something partial, that doesn't risk disaster?"
To do so would be to risk both disaster and uninhibited achievement.
I had probably starved my own child to death in utero, rather than risk known disaster.
"Might that not be for the best rather than risking disaster?"
Proceeding with the burn risked disaster if control was lost, as indeed happened.
Rather than risk disaster, they decided to take an intentional safety with just over a minute remaining in the game.
Taking the bulk of his available force into an unknown situation was risking disaster.