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Letter: Importance of bomb test outweighs ‘risk’

Sunday, Jan. 7, 2007 | 7:33 a.m.

The Jan. 3 article in the Las Vegas Sun on the Divine Strake test reveals the true intent of the opponents' objections, which are to curtail the development of a bunker buster bomb.

Do we really want to get involved in another Iraq-style war when we could otherwise take out the Iranian or North Korean nuclear weapons if we had a suitable bomb?

Just having a credible deterrent would be helpful to a diplomatic solution, which is something we all would hope for.

The environmental question is moot, considering that radioactive soils from the atomic bomb tests have been blowing around for the last 60 years as a result of the many dust storms. The dust created from one isolated test would be negligible in comparison.

I find it disconcerting that our politicians and media can be taken in by these specious objections raised by the pacifists.

Henry Schmid, Las Vegas

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