In a Foreign Policy cover story that began as a talk at CISAC last fall, Robert McNamara warns that the current U.S. administration's nuclear weapons policies are dangerous, immoral and unnecessary. It's well past time for the nation to remove its nuclear weapons from high alert and to make a concerted effort toward global nuclear disarmament, writes the former secretary of defense.

McNamara's harrowing account of America's close call with nuclear catastrophe in the Cuban Missile Crisis lends support to his argument, in "Apocalypse Soon," linked below.