William Perry
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican mathematician and businessman, former Secretary of Defense
William James Perry is an American mathematician, engineer, businessman, and civil servant who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton.
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Perry in Rwanda, 1994.
Perry and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Kenneth Bacon and Linda Kozaryn, American Forces Press Service reporter, during a flight to Europe, 1995
Perry at the National Defense University graduation on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2008.
Perry at a conference in Stockholm in 2014In their own words 4
Our first action that really set us off in a bad direction was when Nato started to expand, bringing in eastern European nations, some of them bordering Russia.
Cited in Russian hostility 'partly caused by west', claims former US defence head, 9 Mar 2016
We stand today, I believe, in greater danger of a nuclear catastrophe than we faced during the Cold War.
"Former Defense Secretary Warns Civilization Is at Risk," interview by Robert Scheer, August 9, 2017
Any further spread of nuclear weapons multiplies the possibilities of nuclear confrontation and magnifies the danger of diversion.
Henry Kissinger, Speech to the 45th Munich Security Conference, delivered 6 February 2009
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George Ellery HaleAlso won Rumford Prize
Miroslav KrležaAlso won Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir
Nikolaus PevsnerAlso won Honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb
Pedro Passos CoelhoAlso won Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Andrew GroveAlso won California Hall of Fame
Gianni De MichelisAlso won Order of Freedom of the Republic of SloveniaAbout this person
William James Perry is an American mathematician, engineer, businessman, and civil servant who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton. He also served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993-1994) and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977-1981).
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