Re: “We are the generation that forgot about the horror of nuclear war” (June 21, Opinion):
As someone who grew up in the United States during the Cold War, practicing duck and cover under a school desk, I appreciate the sentiment of this opinion piece.
I can’t help wondering how many of the countries that have worked to build their own nuclear weapons would have done so if the United States and other nuclear powers had lived up to promises and obligations of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons. I think we could all feel safer if so many countries did not possess nuclear weapons.
The bullying by nuclear powers has only served to convince other countries that their only hope of defending themselves is to create their own nuclear arsenals. In the long run, none of us is safer because of this.
Russ Kevin Childers, Seattle
