And I sure don't have all the answers. But people sure seemed to be a lot more respectful of each other before we fixed everything. Smokey Briggs is the Editor and Publisher of the Pecos Enterprise whose column appears on Tuesdays. Our View Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty needed rejecting It is easy to vote for something that sounds nice. A ban on nuclear testing sounds nice.
Nuclear weapons are ugly things capable of horrific destruction.
It might be nice if such things didn't exist. Luckily for America, the U. S. Senate didn't take the easy road last week and voted to reject the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that President Clinton signed in 1996. The treaty has been hyped by supporters as a general cure-all for the ills of nuclear proliferation. According to supporters it is a big step toward worldwide nuclear disarmament, and would prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The question that has not been answered satisfactorily by supporters is how these nice objectives would be accomplished by this treaty.