Is It Impossible to Walk Back From the Brink?

The idea that nuclear weapons are a danger to all mankind is a fundamentally important idea, and we should continue to keep that idea in front of the world. We can retire all of our i c p ms and still maintain a strong, very strong deterrence. And there may be some local cases where one nuclear power could destroy a non nuclear power, or even another, in a more primitive nuclear power without suffering the logic of retaliation. Those are all things that can be done in the relatively near terme that well greatly reduce our dangers. But over the longer period of time, work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, and beyond, making political noises to those ends....