May premium magazine: Early warnings and near misses

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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

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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

Then-Defense Secretary William Perry (with Attorney General Janet Reno) in the White House press room in 1994. (Photo by Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images)

How a US defense secretary came to support the abolition of nuclear weapons

By William J. Perry | Nuclear Weapons