World Without Nukes? Not So Fast, Graybeards Say -- A Commentary

A Trident missile at liftoff. Photograph: AP/The Guardian

From The Danger Room:

President Barack Obama recently laid out his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. A panel of nuclear strategy experts’ advice oh how to get there: Take the tiniest of baby steps.

The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States — tasked by Congress to take a comprehensive look at U.S. nuclear weapons policy — released its final recommendations this morning. And in his preface, chairman William Perry sounds downright pessimistic about the president’s goal. “Indeed, if the vision of nuclear elimination is thought of as the ‘top of the mountain,’ it is clear that it cannot be seen at this time,” he writes. “But I believe that we should be heading up the mountain to a ‘base camp’ that would be safer than where we are today.”

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