Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

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.

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.

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.

Nuclear weapons are intrinsically neither moral nor immoral, though they are more prone to immoral use than most weapons.