Ridding the world of nuclear weapons

In a response to former U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton’s characterization of the Obama administration’s nuclear arms control efforts as “deeply troubling to America,” Frida Berrigan of the Ploughshares-funded New America Foundation writes to the New York Times that it is Bolton’s “insistence on clinging to irrelevant weapons systems whose primary purpose is mass destruction that is scary.”  She concludes, “At a time when the world community is grappling with the difficult — but not insurmountable — work of seeking security in a world free of nuclear weapons, Mr. Bolton’s gloom and doom scenarios are dangerous and counterproductive.”