- Ignorance
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Herman Kahn Quotes
Most Famous Herman Kahn Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best herman-kahn quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Herman Kahn Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Emotional
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.
- Fashionable
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against fashionable thinking.
- I Am
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am against the whole cliche of the moment.
- Attention
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
- Opinion
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- 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
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.
- Destruction
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
- Others
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Defense Budget
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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 welfare needs.
- Nov 07, 2020
Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
- Developments
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
- First
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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 surpass the Americans.
- High
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
- Gaining
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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 deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
- Domestic Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020