Bit of prevention

IT is truly amazing how many column inches have been and will be devoted to the utterly useless chatter about duct tape and all the other silly efforts being made to sell Americans on the idea of protecting themselves from chemical, biological or nuclear weapons (“An elevated risk of a panic attack and a wisecrack,” by Reed Johnson, Feb. 19).

Those of us who have been through all this before can hardly bear the irony.

Why is it that, instead of all this dithering, there are not articles about things that can be done to prevent war in the first place? It is obvious that war has become so massively destructive that it can no longer be used as an arm of useful foreign policy. Therefore, the human race is going to have to think its way out of that dilemma. Some constructive articles on this subject would be helpful.

Jean Girard

Temple City