Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Some of the American military obviously were thinking in terms of fighting a nuclear war. I was opposed to that.

What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far.

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

I hate the idea that someone think the destruction of Chicago as strategic affair, the destruction of Hamburg as a tactical one.

The catch word is equilibrium again, informed the field what are conventional weapons or nuclear weapons of different qualities. You cannot make up for a actual or perceived disequilibrium in the conventional field by having more nuclear weapons.