William J. Perry: “But the real solution rests with our President. He needs to stop with excuses and secure our border.”

A preemptive strike could bring about complete and total catastrophe to South Korea and to Japan. So that is not an option.

We have two different requirements we have to meet: maintaining deterrence while at the same time working to decrease this threat of proliferation and nuclear terrorism.

I believe if the United States failed to ratify this treaty, our country would essentially lose any ability for international leadership in this field and international influence in the field.

I just wanted to make a really, I think, basic point on this issue, which is that we have, without doubt, the best military in the world.