| Nuclear Abolition, A Reverie
Iklé, Fred C.
The National Interest, September/October 2009, #103, pp4-9
"The fact that nuclear weapons have not been used for sixty-four years gives us hope. [...] In any event, as long as nuclear use can be prevented, abolition is less important. Preserving the tradition of nonuse is vital to the international community. Let us do all we can to maintain this dispensation. It is the most important tacit consensus among all nuclear powers, essential for the survival of a civilized world. It has lasted more than six decades and has taken us safely through all the crises of the cold war and the dramatic changes that followed."
Fred C. Iklé is a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was Undersecretary of Defense for policy in the Reagan Administration.
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A11/05-09. Posted December 1, 2009
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