The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed. But in a thermonuclear war the first blow may be the decisive one and render null and void years of work and billions spent on creation of an anti-missile system.


Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968) - Dangers - The Threat of Nuclear War

Andrei Sakharov Quotes

The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple...

The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple...

The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple...

The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple...