“In a sense we live in a thermonuclear monarchy. The secrecy that surrounds nuclear weapons is quite extraordinary, and it’s really the only policy area where we have so much secrecy…”

“…We’re really in the dark – the government has decided what we can and can’t know about the most consequential decision a country can make – whether to go to war, and whether to go to nuclear war. We think we have a democracy, but we will not have a full democracy until as citizens we can take greater control of this extraordinarily dangerous technology.“

Kennette Benedict at the New Momentum for Saner Nuclear Policy