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Article: NUCLEAR WEAPONS UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT RESUME TESTING
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- October 7, 1993
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Editorials/Our opinions - Our Views
The United States should not resume testing nuclear weapons just because China chose to brush aside the informal moratorium that the world's nuclear powers agreed to last year. Instead, the U.S. should counsel the other nations - Britain, France and Russia - to honor their commitment. If one more nation breaks the faith, it will be hard to stop another costly arms competition.
There is no national security reason to expand nuclear capability now. So the United States should show leadership directed toward limiting and then ridding the earth of any nuclear threat; show China that we ...