Toward Nuclear Responsibility

The 20th century’s leading business thinker, Peter Drucker, frequently warned, “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” The painful truth is that failure to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and the use of such weapons by terrorists would result from a failure of will, not of means. Having enjoyed six decades without the use of nuclear weapons as a result of the strenuous, steady actions of courageous leaders, this generation of leaders must ask what excuse it will give its successors if it bequeaths to them a world of nuclear anarchy.