“I don’t think there’s any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.”

As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack.

Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

An accidental military launch of multiple warheads could result in a worldwide nuclear holocaust.

You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.

Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America’s vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S.

Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.

The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War.

Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values.

I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they’re going to exist. But they’re losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.

Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time.

Having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.

The explosion of a terrorist’s single nuclear device in a major metropolitan center would trigger an unparalleled humanitarian and environmental disaster.

I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time.

The arsenal of megadeath can’t be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.