Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion..

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new….

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment..

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give….

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to….

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than….

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the rig….

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity..

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is n….

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion..

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but n….

Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them..

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality..

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to….

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war..

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons..

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a….

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by ….

I'm against ignorance..

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analy….

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare prog….