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The greatest danger facing our nation is the possibility of a catastrophic nuclear attack by a terrorist group that does not have a return address and therefore is unlikely to be deterred. The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a "nuclear tipping point."
With these growing dangers in mind, I have joined with former U.S. Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Bill Perry in working to build a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally, as a vital contribution to preventing their proliferation into potentially dangerous hands and ultimately ending them as a threat to the world.
We have proposed a series of steps that we believe you and other world leaders should take to reduce nuclear dangers and lay the groundwork for building a world free of the nuclear threat. These steps include: securing nuclear weapons and dangerous nuclear materials globally to the highest standards, removing all nuclear arsenals from a dangerous hair-trigger posture, putting in place a global prohibition on nuclear testing, stopping the production of nuclear material for weapons purposes and building a broad consensus and reliable mechanisms for verification and enforcement of international agreements.
We cannot reduce the nuclear threat without taking these steps; we cannot take these steps without the cooperation of other nations; and we cannot get the cooperation of other nations without the vision of ending these weapons as a threat to the world.
We must ask ourselves two questions: The day after a nuclear attack, what would we wish we had done? Why aren't we doing it now?
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