Re: “Trump appears to suggest the US will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years” (Oct. 29, Nation & World):
President Donald Trump introduced that we are going to resume nuclear testing. He additionally stated that we now have extra nuclear weapons than every other nation. Please word:
• Russia has extra nuclear weapons than we do.
• The US has detonated extra nuclear bombs than every other nation. Between 1945 and 1992, we carried out 1,030 nuclear exams. The Soviet Union was subsequent with 715.
• Nuclear testing is horrific for the setting and disastrous for populations uncovered to radioactive fallout, inflicting elevated most cancers charges, particularly leukemia and thyroid most cancers, and better charges of miscarriages, stillbirths and numerous start defects.
A president searching for a Nobel Peace Prize would do properly to attempt to get all nuclear-weapon nations to ratify the Complete Nuclear-Check-Ban Treaty and the newer Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. That president would additionally instantly deliver us again from the brink of a nuclear catastrophe by getting nuclear nations:
• To scale back their nuclear stockpiles.
• To resign the choice of utilizing nuclear weapons first.
• To take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert (and)
• To finish the only real, unchecked authority of any single individual to launch a nuclear assault.
Pat Henry, Walla Walla
