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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Catfish who wrote (7853)	10/17/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) of 769670

There's a lot of things wrong with the treaty: (1) The rogue nations haven't signed and are unlikely to. (2) The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has never worked, and the U.S. just gives mild lip service or turns the other way when China helps Pakistan, N. Korea, or Iran get weapons capability. (3) Abandoning testing of US weapons allows the US deterrent to degrade and decreases the reliability of the deterrent threat. The use of mathematical models doesn't guarantee the reliability of a weapon. You still need physical tests to verify the reliability of models which change over time. (4) There would be a requirement for seismic detection equipment to be placed all over the world and in many places, we aren't likely to be allowed. (5) The detection equipment are ineffective in detecting low tonnage tests and where larger tests are decoupled. The treaty would be about as effective as the earlier nuclear treaties. We're still worrying about nuclear weapons and chemical weapons after the limitation, reduction, non-proliferation treaties of the past 30 years.

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