Bill Perry

I thought the article Bill Perry is Terrified, Why Aren’t You?, written by Politico Magazine, was very interesting. I find the topic of war and the effects it can have on human civilization interesting. And, the fact, that Bill Perry is able to in some way recognize the signs of a nuclear bombing happening in the future is interesting, yet shocking. Perry has a background that not many people can relate to, “His life’s work, most of it highly classified, was nuclear weapons—how to maximize the fearsome deterrent power of the U.S. arsenal, how to minimize the possibility that the old Soviet arsenal would obliterate the United States and much of the planet along the way.” Because Perry dealt with so many types of nuclear weapons and so many scenarios …show more content…
As it stated in the article, “unlike the original Cold War, this time there is a world of busy fanatics excited by the prospect of a planet with more bombs—people who have already demonstrated the desire to slaughter many thousands of people in an instant, and are zealously pursuing ever more deadly means to do so.” Along with that, people are not as prepared for a nuclear war to happen. I do realize that there is not much you can do if a bomb is dropped in the area you live in, but if everyone was given knowledge about them, it may be able to save some people in the surrounding areas. Many years ago, nuclear wars were a common topic of movies and people thought about the threat of them everyday, but that is the other difference from the times of the Cold War, “Americans no longer think about the threat everyday.” I thought this article was very interesting because I had never thought about how others may look at nuclear weapons, especially those that had experienced wars where these types of weapons were used in the past, like Bill