U.S.-Russia Pact on Weapons
Your editorial celebration of the demise of Dr. Strangelove may be just a tad premature and slightly on the optimistic side. Your editorial opines that, since each side will be reduced to holding on to only 3,000 to 3,500 warheads, the first-strike option is thus removed. In other words, by the end of the century each side will only possess sufficient nuclear weaponry to extinguish all life on this planet 50 times over instead of 100 times over.
Personally, I find this latest exercise in bureaucratic mindlessness to be more grotesque than consoling.
ROBERT S. COUGHLIN, Rancho Palos Verdes
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