A panel led by former Defense Secretary William Perry, an adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, issued an interim report today urging the United States to maintain a credible, safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent for the long term. Perry, a former Clinton-era defense secretary, teamed last year with former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, as well as Obama adviser and former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA), to advocate working toward a world without nuclear weapons. Perry also opposed...
