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.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

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.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

I'm against ignorance.

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.