Fear of nuclear weapons seems like something out of the Cold War, but the nuclear threat has actually grown since then, so much so that even foreign policy hawks like former U.S. Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz have started arguing for a nuclear free world. So, has the moment come to make the pipe dream real? We’ll speak with Jan Lodal, former senior Defense Department and White House official in the Nixon, Ford, and Clinton administrations. He and co-author Ivo Daalder, a Brookings Institution Fellow who’s been advising Obama on foreign policy, have written an essay laying out the route to a world without nuclear weapons.
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January 9, 2009
