I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole clichรฉ of the moment.
Herman KahnMy 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.
Herman KahnIt 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.
Herman KahnClearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.
Herman Kahn