William Perry: worried about nuclear proliferation

[Winehole23]

Nuclear bombs are an area of expertise Perry had assumed would be largely obsolete by now, seven decades after Hiroshima, a quarter-century after the fall of the Soviet Union, and in the flickering light of his own life. Instead, nukes are suddenly—insanely, by Perry’s estimate—once again a contemporary nightmare, and an emphatically ascendant one. At the dawn of 2017, there is a Russian president making bellicose boasts about his modernized arsenal. There is an American president-elect who breezily free-associates on Twitter about starting a new nuclear arms race. Decades of cooperation between the two nations on arms control is nearly at a standstill. And, unlike the original Cold War, this time there is a world of busy fanatics excited by the prospect of a planet with more bombs—people who have already demonstrated the desire to slaughter many thousands of people in an instant, and are zealously pursuing ever more deadly means to do so.


And there’s one other difference from the Cold War: Americans no longer think about the threat every day.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...eration-214604

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The Fridge?

[Mitch]

The Fridge?

This man looks like a man who would be concerned with nuclear weapons for sure.

[DMX7]

Rick Perry is probably concerned too.