Weinberger’s Call for Testing

Your printing of letters from the Southern California Federation of Scientists (May 26), rightfully opposing the views of Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger was constructive and responsible.

Your printing the letters of Richard Sybert and James Alexiou (June 10) was appropriate only to propagate any opposing views on comments opposing the views of Secretary Weinberger, but it was neither constructive nor responsible.

There was nothing new in the information provided by Sybert to support the validity of continuing nuclear testing by the United States except that he provided some enhanced presentation to support the views and arguments of Weinberger, which weren’t broadly viewed and calculated to justify why the United States has to continue nuclear testing. I don’t know who in America is going to buy nuclear testing by viewing such a presentation.

Any nuclear testing without broadly and deeply evaluating its real need is like testing something without knowing what we are doing and why we are testing.

Any assumption that nuclear weapons have ensured the free world’s security for the last 42 years is as credible as assuming that they have benefited the world’s economy when more than 50,000 nuclear warheads have only caused economic damage worldwide since that time in obstructing world’s economic progress by swallowing trillions of dollars for never usable nuclear weapons by keeping draconian security strategies. All the money spent on nuclear weapons and their testing could have been productively used for economic growth.

When you once recognize and realize that any nuclear strategy is only a persistent draconian strategy and not a needful and safely credible security strategy for the world, why do you need to support such a strategy? We only need to pursue the total elimination of all nuclear weapons.

If all nuclear weapons are no longer needed after a broader evaluation of all security strategies either for deterrence or for world security, why do you need any kind of nuclear testing at all? Why don’t our politicians and Cabinet officials focus their attention to do something good to the national economy or world economy instead of concentrating on worthless nuclear testing?

DONTHALA P. REDDY

Garden Grove