“We’re now at the precipice, maybe I should say the brink, of a new nuclear arms race,” Perry said at an event in Washington on Thursday. “This arms race will be at least as expensive as the arms race we had during the Cold War, which is a lot of money.”
Perry also called for the breaking of the so-called nuclear "triad" -- nuclear-armed submarines, a next-generation long-range bomber, and replacement of the current ICBMs -- by dismantling the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) stockpile.
He contended that America’s nuclear-armed submarines and a new long-range bomber program would be enough to provide it the required deterrence against enemies.
