Nuclear War With Russia Is Still a Danger

“Still on Catastrophe’s Edge” (Commentary, April 26) ended with the comment that “a clear road map for nuclear disarmament should be established.” The road map is in Article VI of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. It calls for an end to the nuclear arms race, nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament “under strict and effective international control.” President Kennedy presented the American-Soviet (McCloy-Zorin) program to achieve that goal in his address to the United Nations on Sept. 25, 1961. When the nations that have signed the NPT meet next year at the seventh NPT review conference, they should agree to implement Article VI with JFK’s program.

Edward C. Perry

Claremont

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Mexican Corn Farmers

“A Flood of U.S. Corn Rips at Mexico,” Commentary, April 23: Michael Pollan is not talking about free trade. Dumping heavily subsidized products on another country is the utter antithesis of free trade. It doesn’t stop there. U.S. firms patent their hybrid varieties of corn. Mexico has done little to protect, cash in on or patent its infinitely greater genetic wealth. Once again, the U.S. has an unfair advantage; trade is not free.

Mexico has been less than supportive to its small-scale corn farmers. They have often been dispossessed or even shot (as in the Zapatista case in Chiapas). This does not give them a level playing field.

E.N. Anderson

San Bernardino