- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.
- Fashionable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against fashionable thinking.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am against the whole cliche of the moment.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020