It 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.

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.

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

Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

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.

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