“I can't predict the future.”
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Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
