Today, the world is at least as dangerous as it was then, though for different reasons. Technology has made the design and construction of mass destruction weapons more easily available to more people. International terrorism runs rampant on an unprecedented scale. And the massive nuclear power of the former Soviet Union is now in the hands of not one but several countries, all of them under severe economic and political stress. Mr. President, if ACDA did not exist, we would be here today trying to invent it.
Arms control is like neurosurgery.
It is no place for beginners. It is one of the most complicated things you can imagine. ACDA is the only body in this Government that stands up as an independent voice for arms control. There are those who say ACDA should be disbanded, merged into the State Department. I believe they are wrong.