There is an important law about power that is too often overlooked by rational
and peace-loving people. Any form of power, from the most primitive to the most
mind-boggling, is always amplified enormously when it falls into the hands of
those whose behavior is wild, erratic, and unpredictable. A gun being waved back
and forth by a maniac is far more disturbing to us than the gun in the holster
of the policeman, though both weapons are equally capable of shooting us dead.
And what is true of guns is far more true in the case of nukes.
Lee Harris