INF Treaty
I would like to answer the question with which Yoder ended his column.
Yoder wrote, “Why enter an arms-control treaty that lowers the nuclear threshold, weakens deterrence and invites adventurism without compensating adjustments in conventional and intercontinental weaponry? For show? For politics? For what?”
My answer: Go through with this treaty because it’s the one now at hand; the one both Soviets and Americans agreed to address and are now coming close to working out.
We desperately need a starting point in arms reduction. With the INF treaty in force and being implemented successfully, a greater degree of trust will be established and a momentum for working together.
Even supposing that some of Yoder’s criticisms are valid, let’s take a chance for peace. For the sake of our very survival, let’s start the ball rolling towards arms reduction.
DOROTHY KILIAN
Pasadena
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