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Kyl and Perle on the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent

June 30, 2009 :: The Wall Street Journal :: Analysis

U.S. Senator John Kyl and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle argue in the Wall Street Journal that a failure to modernize U.S. nuclear forces will lead to more worldwide nuclear proliferation and leave us less secure.

 

Citing the recent Perry-Schlesinger Commission report on the strategic posture of the U.S. (published in May), they warn that America's nuclear force is in desperate need of funding, upgrading, and maintenance if we are to avoid unilateral disarmament by unilateral obsolescence.

 

Among other things, they recommend a rejection of Russia's continuing effort to link mutual arms reductions to the abandonment of U.S. missile defenses. (Article)

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