The genie-stuffers

The Washington Times ^ | 6-19-07 | Frank Gaffney

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Back when nuclear weaponry and deterrence strategy still received serious national deliberation, most sensible people recognized a basic reality: Once the technology to build nuclear weapons became widely available, there was no way to stuff "the nuclear genie back in the bottle."

In those days, only the most pollyannish and irresponsible -- typically, arms-control enthusiasts, Soviet dupes and one-worlders -- nurtured illusions that nuclear proliferation could be wholly prevented. Toward that end, such "genie-stuffers" generally promoted the negotiation of unverifiable treaties and unilateral U.S. restraint, if not actual disarmament. Unfortunately, a domestic political squeeze-play (involving funding for the long-since-terminated Super Collider-Super Conductor then under construction in Texas) prompted the first President Bush to embrace such an exercise in U.S. nuclear restraint: a moratorium on all U.S. underground nuclear testing.

Fifteen years have elapsed since the last U.S. underground nuclear test. The unilateral moratorium ushered in a period in which little responsible thought, let alone rigorous debate, has been applied to America's deterrent and what it will take to assure its future reliability and safety.

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