“The threat of nuclear war never went away” (Nov. 2, Opinion) is a well timed reminder. The world can not afford one other nuclear arms race. In lower than 100 days, the final remaining arms management treaty between the USA and Russia — the New START settlement — expires.
I grew up beneath the upcoming menace of a nuclear warfare. Films similar to “Dr. Strangelove” made that clear. In class we practiced drills, crouching beneath our desks. At any time when I heard a navy jet fly overhead, my abdomen clutched in concern. I felt an infinite sense of reduction after the Restricted Take a look at Ban Treaty of 1963. It was the primary of a sequence of distinguished treaties between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (later Russia) to de-escalate the nuclear arms race.
Urge the president and Congress to work towards negotiating a alternative of the New START treaty and work towards a world freed from nuclear weapons.
Ellie Duffield, Seattle
