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Quotes from Nobel Prize lecture — Thomas Schelling

1921–2016 United States

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The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.

Nobel Prize lecture (2005)

Arms control is so often identified with limitations on the possession or deployment of weapons that it is often overlooked that this reciprocated investment in non-nuclear capability was a remarkable instance of unacknowledged but reciprocated arms control.

Nobel Prize lecture (2005)

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