Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social wel….

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race..

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, surv….

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral..

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to….

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation..

I'm against fashionable thinking..

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming….

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be depri….

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different fr….

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society,….

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advan….

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis….

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to su….

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed..

I am against the whole cliche of the moment..