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Letter: Bush keeps finger on nuclear trigger

Friday, March 25, 2005 | 9:06 a.m.

Since 1992, on order of President George H.W. Bush, the U.S. has observed a moratorium on nuclear testing, but Bush II has no intentions of asking the Senate to ratify the treaty his own father patriotically observed.

At present, the U.S. has 10,000 nuclear weapons, 6,000 of them in active readiness. Finally, this president has ignored, failed to ratify or walked away from the following: anti-ballistic missile treaty, comprehensive test ban treaty, fissile material cut-off treaty.

Knowing this, what do you think the North Koreans and the Iranians say to themselves when Bush continues to call them "tyrannical rogue governments" for going forward with nukes of their own?

JAMES J. POUPARD

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