If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. Wilhelm Dilthey
We will put Polaris into the arms talks with the Soviet Union and hope to phase it out in multilateral negotiations... if the Russians ... fail to cut their nuclear forces accordingly it would be a new situation that we could consider at that time. Denis Healey