I'll fill in those of you too busy with Homecoming to catch the news. Senate rejected the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on Oct 13. Clinton signed the CTBT, but the United States does not abide by the law because Congress did not pass it. Some Senators claim the treaty is now in shambles because no other country would obey if the United States does not. Debate will continue through the election.
Nothing brings in the votes like terror.
Meanwhile, we just shot our relations with Russia and China. While our elected representatives were garnering political points, our diplomats tried talking the world into modifying another treaty. We had no problem signing the treaty in the '70s, when effective ABM systems were still a pipe dream, until Oct. 3, when we shot down one of our own Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with a new type of missile. Thrilled, the United States asked to alter the treaty so we could build a smallABM system against Iraq and North Korea. The world's jaw dropped.