I'm against fashionable thinking.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

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.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

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.

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.

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