Episode 92: William Perry. How the Former Secretary of Defense Learned to Loathe the Bomb

William Perry was the 19th Secretary of Defense, serving in the Clinton administration from 1994 to 1997. But in 1962, he was a 35 year old mathematician working in the defense industry and living in California. And one day in October, his phone rang. It was the deputy director of the CIA who summoned him immediately to Washington, DC. He needed Perry t…
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