A leading disarmament advocate -Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry- is endorsing the naive unilateral disarmament plans of the Obama administration, as laid-out in his speech in Prague. Although understandably disturbed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Perry somehow has arrived at the conclusion that the same kind of appeasement that started WWII will charm ruthless, apocalyptic tyrants today-
Perry argued that nonproliferation and disarmament efforts have "stalled or even reversed" in the last decade, noting that Russia and China today are said to be building new nuclear weapons.
"North Korea has gone nuclear and Iran is following close in its footsteps," according to Perry. If those countries develop their own arsenals "I believe we will cross over a nuclear tipping point, greatly increasing the danger of a nuclear catastrophe in the world," he said.
"We must do everything in our power to prevent that from happening," Perry added. He and former Senator Sam Nunn and former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz are sometimes called the "Four Horsemen of the Non-Apocalypse" for their key role in promoting revived discussion of nuclear disarmament.