“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.”
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Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
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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.
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Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.
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World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
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