At the end of a thoughtful article on the future of nuclear war, Wiesner and York concluded that: "Both sides in the arms race are... confronted by the dilemma of steadily increasing military power and steadily decreasing national security. It is our considered professional judgment that this dilemma has no technical solution. If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation.".

Using the ethical premise that there can be too much of a good thing, an ecologist attempts to find what the limits of medical research should be, where competition and cooperation should be balanced, and how triage should be used in making global decisio.