Perry heads effort

Draft Report Urges Accepting Mutual Nuclear Vulnerability With China

/ July 26, 2012 at 12:14 AM
The United States should declare that mutual nuclear vulnerability with China is a "fact of life" for both countries rather than investing in strategic offensive and defensive capabilities designed to negate China's nuclear forces, according to a draft report prepared by a federal advisory panel led by former Defense Secretary William Perry. Inside the Pentagon obtained a copy of the May 23 draft report, a product of the State Department's International Security Advisory Board. Last year, then-Under Secretary of State...

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