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World War I Broke Out Largely Because Of An Arms Race, And World War Ii Because Of The Lack Of An Arms Race.

Deterrence Itself Is Not A Preeminent Value; The Primary Values Are Safety And Morality.

As For Total Disarmament, There Are Almost 50,000 Nuclear Weapons In The World Today; Even If They Were Banned, Not All Would Be Destroyed.

For Some Years I Have Spent My Time On Exactly These Questions - Both In Thinking About Ways To Prevent War, And In Thinking About How To Fight, Survive, And Terminate A War, Should It Occur.

There Was No Race - But To The Extent That There Was An Arms Competition, It Was Almost Entirely On The Soviet Side, First To Catch Up And Then To Surpass The Americans.