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George Shultz

Shultz (front left) and the author (left rear) at a 1987 National Security Council meeting on missile defense and arms control. Other participants, from left to right: Energy Secretary John Herrington, Science Advisor William Graham, Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director Robert Linhard, National Security Advisor Frank Carlucci, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman, CIA Deputy Director Robert Gates, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Robert Herres, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. (White House photo.)

An appreciation of George Shultz, a statesman, a gentleman, and a gentle man

By William Tobey | Nuclear Risk

WASHINGTON, DC -- UNDATED: Secretary of State George P. Shultz (L) and Vice President George H.W. Bush at an event in Washington, DC, circa 1983. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

Remembering George Shultz: an interview with a key figure in ending the Cold War

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons

Moment of the adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nucler Weapons, July 7, 2017. (Photo: Clare Conboy/ICAN)

Why the United States should support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

By William J. Perry | Nuclear Weapons