JourneyNuclearBrink

My Journey to the Nuclear Brink (W. Perry)

Average overall. More of a memoir than anything.
During the Cuban missile crisis an American ICBM was launched. It was a routine test that no one thought to reschedule.
After missing a bid for a Govt. contract, start-up company went out and loaned their employees to other companies that had gotten the contract as a way to keep their talent in house.
"Megaton to Megawatts" project blended down Soviet uranium in old bombs for use in commercial power reactors in the US.
Upward progress in human violence and global political trends hopeful, but nuclear conflict could in blink be the ultimate reversal.
Our chief peril is poised nuclear doom, too far out of global public consciousness.
"Our problems are man-made, therefore, they can be solved by man" JFK
The problem is not how long it will take governments to reduce nukes to zero, but that governments now aren't moving at all.
Key to constructive action to prevent nuclear weapons being used is education of the public.