"The final outcome of benevolent, informed, and intelligent decisions may turn out to be disastrous. But choices must be made; dies must be cast. So it is with the most dramatic "choices" open to the free world in our day: arms control , peaceful coexistence, rearmament, dynamic rollback, appeasement, Soviet domination, thermonuclear war, or whatever shifting alternatives seem most appealing or least unpalatable from year to year."
On Thermonuclear War, by Herman Kahn (HB, 1960, $7, which is 1/3 of the internet.)
Look for this on the new non-fiction table. (L- cold war.)
