To:    letters@nytimes.com
Re:    Nuclear double standards
Date: Tuesday 10 October 06

 

 

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Dear Editor,

 
Please explain and justify to me the double standard by which certain countries - including the USA, of course - may have nuclear weapons, but other countries not.
 
We ARE on the road of nuclear proliferation, which will INEVITABLY lead, sooner or later, to nuclear wars - a succession of them - if we continue along it, ending perhaps in a final global conflagration.
 
America was the first country to tread this path and continues to lead us down it, notwithstanding the hypocritical protests (including those in the NYT) every time another country follows along.

The USA, Britain and France, in particular, must work towards placing their nuclear weapons under shared democratic control (as a deterrence against evil doers). Only when our own governments relinquish the "right" to their own nuclear weapons, will WE have the moral authority to demand the same from others. Otherwise, all the arguments used to defend our governments' possession of nuclear weapons will be used by others, and our suicidal march along the road of nuclear proliferation will continue.

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