Herman Kahn Quotes About Nuclear Weapons

Quotes about: Nuclear 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.

  Herman Kahn

  Differences, World, May

• My 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 Kahn

  Years, Weapons, Next

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.31, Lexington Books

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

  Herman Kahn

  Weapons, Nuclear, Use

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Herman Kahn

  Numbers, Objectivity, Weapons

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books

• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Aggravation, Two

• As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

  Herman Kahn

  Would Be, Nuclear, World

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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