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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

By William Tobey | Nuclear Risk

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

Visitors check out an infinity chamber at the

Introduction: An innovative and determined future for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons

cover of the book The Button

The Atomic Titanic: an excerpt from “The Button”

By William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina | Nuclear Weapons