My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry’s efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose.
In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it.
This book traces his thought process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the Soviets’ numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding over the dismantling of more than 8, 000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers.
İçerik tablosu
1. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Nuclear Nightmare
2. A Fire in the Sky
3. The Rise of the Soviet Missile Threat and the Race for Data to Understand It
4. An Original Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and the Advance of Spy Technology
5. A Call to Serve
6. Implementing the Offset Strategy and the Emergence of Stealth Technology
7. Buildup of the US Nuclear Force
8. Nuclear Alerts, Arms Control, and Missed Opportunities in Nonproliferation
9. The Undersecretary as Diplomat
10. Back in Civilian Life: The Cold War Ends But the Nuclear Journey Continues
11. A Return to Washington: The New Challenge of ‘Loose Nukes’ and the Lurching Reform of Defense Acquisition
12. I Become Secretary of Defense
13. Dismantling Nuclear Weapons and the Legacy of Nunn-Lugar
14. The Crisis with North Korea: Containing a Nuclear State
15. Ratifying Start II and Battling Over the Test Ban Treaty
16. NATO, Peacekeeping in Bosnia, and the Rise of Security Ties With Russia
17. The ‘Immaculate Invasion’ of Haiti and Forging Ties for Western Hemispheric Unity
18. The ‘Iron Logic’ Between Military Capability and Quality of Life
19. A Farewell to Arms
20. The Fall of Security Ties with Russia
21. The Fall of Security Ties with Russia
22. The North Korean Policy Review: Triumph and Tragedy
23. Fiasco in Iraq: Then and Now
24. Former Cold Warrior Offer New Vision
25. The Way Forward: Hope for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
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William J. Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense for the United States from February 1994 to January 1997. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993–1994) and as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977–1981). He is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University.
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