To This Day We Seem To Act

What Makes It Immoral If You Lose And Not Immoral If You Win?

Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons, So Naive, So Simplistic, And So Idealistic As To Be Quixotic? Some May Think So. But As Human Beings, Citizens Of Nations With Power To Influence Events In The World, Can We Be At Peace With Ourselves If We Strive For Less? I Think Not.

...but Highly Placed Sources Within The Kennedy Administration Disagreed: "[t]he Assumption That The Strategic Nuclear Balance Mattered In Any Way Was Wrong... As Far As I Am Concerned, It Made No Difference... If My Memory Serves Me Correctly, We Had Some Five Thousand Strategic Nuclear Warheads As Against T Heir Three Hundred. Can Anyone Seriously Tell Me That Their Having Three Hundred And Forty Would Have Made Any Difference? The Military Balance Wasn't Changed. I Didn't Believe It Then, And I Don't Believe It Now..."

I Would Characterize Current Us Nuclear Weapons Policy As Immoral, Illegal, Militarily Unnecessary, And Dreadfully Dangerous

At My Age, 85, I'm At Age Where I Can Look Back And Derive Some Conclusions About My Actions. My Rule Has Been Try To Learn, Try To Understand What Happened. Develop The Lessons And Pass Them On.