After reading the article, "Bill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren’t You?", I am left with a newfound terror and fear for my future. Not only to deal with student loans but now have to walk under the constant burden and fear of a potential nuclear war in the future is all very depressing and terrifying. Just like Martin Wolf explained, we have forgotten the past and lately we seem to be remaking those past mistakes. For example, Perry explains, "“I really thought in 1990, 1991, 1992, that we left those behind us. We’re starting to re-invent them. We and the Russians and others don’t understand that what we’re doing is re-creating those dangers—or maybe they don’t remember the dangers". We are going to back to the same fatal mistakes that we should
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Perry explains, "Because you were born in the 1990s, you did not experience the daily terror of ‘duck and cover’ drills as my children did. Therefore the appropriate fear of nuclear weapons is not part of your heritage, but the danger is just as real now as it was then". There was certainly more awareness and more precaution taken in the past, but as the the potential of a nuclear war continues to grow, we, the younger generation, continues to feel less of a threat towards the issue of a nuclear war. I believe that we forget in our daily tasks, but more importantly, I believe that we do not pay attention to foreign policy much, as a younger generation. Many of us do not know about this issue, even though Perry, with the help of his granddaughter, is trying to reach the warning of the threat on all possible platforms. For an old man like Perry, who might not have to worry about seeing a nuclear war in his life, he seems to be more concerned than the younger generation, who has yet to live many years on this planet. After reading this article, I have understood how big of a problem this is. I would agree with Perry that "If we can’t eliminate all nukes, we could at least eliminate one leg of the so-called nuclear triad, intercontinental ballistic missiles".
Perry explains, "Because you were born in the 1990s, you did not experience the daily terror of ‘duck and cover’ drills as my children did. Therefore the appropriate fear of nuclear weapons is not part of your heritage, but the danger is just as real now as it was then". There was certainly more awareness and more precaution taken in the past, but as the the potential of a nuclear war continues to grow, we, the younger generation, continues to feel less of a threat towards the issue of a nuclear war. I believe that we forget in our daily tasks, but more importantly, I believe that we do not pay attention to foreign policy much, as a younger generation. Many of us do not know about this issue, even though Perry, with the help of his granddaughter, is trying to reach the warning of the threat on all possible platforms. For an old man like Perry, who might not have to worry about seeing a nuclear war in his life, he seems to be more concerned than the younger generation, who has yet to live many years on this planet. After reading this article, I have understood how big of a problem this is. I would agree with Perry that "If we can’t eliminate all nukes, we could at least eliminate one leg of the so-called nuclear triad, intercontinental ballistic missiles".