Former Secretary of State George Schultz teleconferences with participants of the "Overcoming Nuclear Danger" conference.
Martha Stewart
"Should Nuclear Weapons Be Eliminated?"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Spring 2008
YES: George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn
"Reassertion of the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and practical measures toward achieving that goal would be, and would be perceived as, a bold initiative consistent with America's moral heritage....We endorse setting the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons and working energetically on the actions required to achieve that goal..." ("A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," Wall Street Journal, 4 January 2007)
NO: John Deutch and Harold Brown
"Nuclear weapons are not empty symbols; they play an important deterrent role, and cannot be eliminated. Foreign policy must be based on this reality; and the U.S. should work with other nations on those achievable objectives that lower the risks of the spread of nuclear weapons capability and ... use." ("The Nuclear Disarmament Fantasy," Wall Street Journal, 19 November 2007)
YES: Mikhail Gorbachev
"We must put the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons back on the agenda, not in a distant future but as soon as possible....Over the past 15 years, the goal of the elimination of nuclear weapons has been so much on the back burner that it will take a true political breakthrough and a major intellectual effort to achieve success in this endeavor." ("The Nuclear Threat," Wall Street Journal, 31 January 2007)
YES: John P. Holdren
"To those who say that it is 'unimaginable' that verification of a NWFW [Nuclear-Weapon-Free-World] could be good enough, or that sovereign states will ever voluntarily surrender control over nuclear weapons and nuclear-fuel-cycle facilities, I say these are failures of imagination...No one is smart enough to be able to confidently place limits on what may be achieved in a few decades more." ("Getting to Zero: Is Pursuing a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World Too Difficult? Too Dangerous? Too Distracting?" Ending War: The Force of Reason: Essays in Honour of Joseph Rotblat, pages 33-56, June 1999)
For Academic Citation:
Communications Office. "Should Nuclear Weapons Be Eliminated?." Belfer Center Newsletter (Spring 2008).
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