Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.