William Perry, Sec. of Defense under Bill Clinton, and George Schultz, Sec. of State under Ronald Reagan, wrote this very balanced piece about arms reductions and the underlying need for looking beyond the present discussion on reducing nuclear weapons. Amazing what you can accomplish by putting your heads together. Now if Congress would ever catch on....
How to build on the Start Treaty
"...New Start is the first tangible product of the administration’s promise to “press the reset button” on United States-Russian relations. The new treaty is welcome. But as a disarmament measure, it is a modest step... Perhaps the treaty’s greatest accomplishment is that the negotiations leading up to its signing re-engaged Americans and Russians in a serious discussion of how to reduce nuclear dangers..."
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