Herman Kahn

“Megadeaths: one million deaths.”

“To be plausible, a scenario must be believable.”

“I have a morbid fascination with the gruesome.”

“And yet, you know, I'm a very optimistic person.”

“Think about the unthinkable.”

“My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use will be tragic and shocking, but not apocalyptic.”

“One must not look down on the weapons of the future. The most important characteristic of the weapons of the future is that they are not the weapons of the past.”

“The planners are my friends... I may be a friend of the planners, but I am not their apologist.”

“I'm against ignorance.”

“War is a terrible thing, but not the worst of things.”