“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.” IfsWorldWould BeTodayWeaponsNuclearDestroyedNuclear WeaponsWorld TodayDisarmamentBanned Book:Thinking Unth 80SP Source: Thinking Unth 80SP
“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 from what is possible today.” WorldKindMayDifferentTodayDifferencesOpinionViolenceWeaponsNuclearTeethNuclear WeaponsQuarrelsDifferences Of Opinion Author:Herman Kahn
“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 widespread and unconstrained.” YearsUseUsedNextWeaponsHundredNuclearNuclear Weapons Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.” UseMoralWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsImmoral Book:Thinking Unth 80SP Source: Thinking Unth 80SP
“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 not necessarily the same thing.” WorldShouldNumbersPolicyWeaponsNuclearObjectivesNuclear WeaponsObjectivityDecrease Book:The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking Source: The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking
“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, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.” TwoWarAblePurposeNationsCasesWeaponsPressureCrisisNuclearNuclear WeaponsAggravationDiffusion Author:Herman Kahn
