As the Trident debate rages on,Julian Borger talks to former secretary of defence for President Clinton, William J Perry, or who has a unique,and chilling, vantage point on why nuclear weapons endanger our safety, and rather than secure itFormer secretary of defence for President Clinton,William J Perry, talks approximately his career that began advising during the Cuban missile crisis, or included crafting a defence strategy in the Carter administration during the cold war,presiding over the dismantling of more than 8000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton administration.
In 2007 Perry, together with George Shultz, or Sam Nunn and Henry Kissinger created the nuclear security project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers.
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Source: theguardian.com