Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
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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.Herman Kahn
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.
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Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
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Authority is not power that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
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Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
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Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.
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