The Objective Of Nuclear-weapons Policy Should Not

I Am Against The Whole Cliche Of The Moment.

Many People Believe That The Current System Must Inevitably End In Total Annihilation. They Reject, Sometimes Very Emotionally, Any Attempts To Analyze This Notion.

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.

New Developments In Weapon Systems During The 1950s And Early 1960s Created A Situation That Was Most Dangerous, And Even Conducive To Accidental War.

From A Scientific Perspective There Is Some Indication That A Nuclear War Could Deplete The Earth's Ozone Layer Or, Less Likely, Could Bring On A New Ice Age - But There Is No Suggestion That Either The Created Order Or Mankind Would Be Destroyed In The Process.