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, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
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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 none of which should take precedence over national security.Herman Kahn
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 war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
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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 correct a system which makes them likely.
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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.
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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
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Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
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