Quotable

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones
-Albert Einstein (contemplating nuclear devastation)

Nukes

Military leaders speak out on nuclear abolition (quotes at NuclearFiles.org).

Large collection of quotes on nuclear weapons at the Global Security Institute's Disarmament and Peace Education site.

Interesting (but not light) Reading

U.S. nuclear weapons security--a "silly" notion, by Pavel Podvig, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 11, 2007

Catastrophic Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict, by Steven Starr, updated 2009 version

NUCLEAR WEAPONS AS THE CURRENCY OF POWER: Deconstructing the Fetishism of Force, by Anne Harrington de Santana, The Nonproliferation Review, 16:3,325 — 345, 2009 

Human Reliability and Safety in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons, by Herbert L. Abrams, &ience & Global Security, 1991,Volume 2, pp.325-34



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