The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

The elderly are useless eaters.

People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people was at stake. And we (the USA) had to threaten the other super power with retaliation to prevent it from doing something to us. Today we live in a world in which a lot of things are in flux. That creates a lot of fear. But it is also a time of great opportunity. And I would call on today's statesmen to not allow their thinking to be directed by fear.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.

U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.