Thomas Schelling's Nobel Prize Speech: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima

Thomas C. Schelling — Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005. Source: NobelPrize.org, © The Nobel Foundation 2005.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.What a stunning achievement – or, if not achievement, what stunning good fortune. In 1960 the British novelist C. P. Snow said on the front page of the New York Times that unless the nuclear powers drastically reduced their nuclear armaments th...