Former Defense Secretary William Perry: Why we must describe doomsday to keep it from happening
By John Mecklin | Issue Article | October 31, 2019
Former US Defense Secretary and current Bulletin Board of Sponsors chair William Perry
In this interview, former Defense Secretary William Perry – chair of the Bulletin’s Board of Sponsors and an emeritus director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative – explains why he believes that public dissemination of realistic (and therefore horrifying) scenarios of nuclear war can help reduce the likelihood it will occur. “What we’re really trying to do is find ways of averting doom,” Perry says. “But we think the first step in that is recognizing that these are very real possibilities.”
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John Mecklin
John Mecklin is a veteran public-interest journalist. He stepped down as editor in chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists mid-August ... Read More
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