Thomas Schelling
Thomas Schelling
Thomas Crombie Schellingis an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencesfor "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis"...
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It will be unusual to be deterred by small countries,
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This permeates life, ... I find it important in dealing with children, dealing with spouses, dealing with neighbors, dealing with customers.
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Nobody is going to give away the farm in Kyoto. It is not anybody's to give away. And even if the United States Senate would actually ratify a bad treaty, anything called for under the treaty would require legislation passed through both houses.
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To go 60 years without any further use of nuclear weapons, I find astonishing. If I would have stood in front of an audience like this in 1960 and said we would finish the century without using nuclear weapons, no one would have credited me whatsoever.