We led in the test ban. We're leading now in strengthening safeguards against nuclear weapons, applying what we learned from Saddam Hussein's clandestine program. We're leading the effort to strengthen the global ban on biological weapons. With the end of the Cold War, all these dangers have grown. No one disputes that.
Technology is more widely available.
Cold War restraints are gone. There could not be a worse time to weaken America's hand. I can't imagine a worse time to tell the world, we're less interested in fighting proliferation than in fighting among ourselves. You pushed the world to embrace the CWC, then turned your own backs on it. It is from this intensely practical perspective, among others, that we need the Convention.