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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.
- Herman Kahn
#National Security
#Security
#Society
I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.
- Herman Kahn
#Against
#Emotional
#Sloppy
#Thinking
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
- Herman Kahn
#Fight
#Questions
#Thinking
#Time
#War
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.
- Herman Kahn
#Attention
#Avoid
#Consequences
#Our
#War
I'm against fashionable thinking.
- Herman Kahn
#Against
#Fashionable
#Thinking
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
#Make
#Policy
#Same Thing
#Should
#World
I'm against ignorance.
- Herman Kahn
#Against
#Ignorance
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.
- Herman Kahn
#Coming
#Decision
#Life
#New
#Wealth
I am against the whole cliche of the moment.
- Herman Kahn
#Against
#Am
#I Am
#Moment
#Whole
New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.
- Herman Kahn
#Dangerous
#Early
#New
#Situation
#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.
- Herman Kahn
#Age
#New
#Perspective
#Process
#War
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
- Herman Kahn
#Paradox
#Perspective
#Result
#Simple
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
- Herman Kahn
#Future
#Help
#Image
#Important
#Society
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
- Herman Kahn
#Enemy
#Humanity
#People
#See
#War
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
- Herman Kahn
#Because
#Race
#War
#World War II
#World
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