The fission bomb was a costly mistress. Consider, your Honors. In 1979 this planet celebrated the International Year of the Child. Of the one hundred and twenty-two million children born that year, one of every ten was dead by 1982, and most died for lack of inexpensive food and vaccines. Yet in 1982 the world spent one trillion dollars on weapons. One trillion dollars!

Chapter 12, In Which It Is Shown that the End of the World Was More Necessary than Previously Supposed (pp. 156-157) - This Is the Way the World Ends (1986)