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There Is Hardly A Man On Earth Who Will Take Advice Unless He Is Certain That It Is Positively Bad.

There Tends To Be This Comfortable Assumption That Nuclear Weapons Won't Be Used, But I Don't Think That's Warranted, And I Think We Should Seize The Opportunity Of This Time Of Stability And Cooperation And Move Towards Global Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons As Indeed People Like Henry Kissinger, And William Perry, Former Secretary Of Defense Under Clinton, And Sam Nunn, Former Senator, And George Schultz, Former Undersecretary Of State For Ronald Reagan. All Of Them Recently Called For Achievement Of A Nuclear Weapon-free World.

The Poor Old Earth Which Has Mothered Us And Nursed Us We Treat With Scant Respect. Our Awe And Veneration We Reserve For The Worlds We Know Not Of. Our Senses Sell Us Out. The Mud On Our Shoes Disenchants Us.

It Doesn't Seem To Be That Huge A Commitment That Would Create, You Know, Some Kind Of Really Powerful Constituency. But The History Has Been For The United States And Russia Especially That Nuclear Weapons Have Kind Of Become Part Of The Identity Of The Countries.

The United States Says "we're Complying. We're Following The Disarmament Obligation. Look At The Quantitative Reductions That Are Taking Place." But, Since '96, There Really Hasn't Been Progress On Specific Commitments That Have Been Made. Perhaps Most Disturbing Is This: That The United States And France In Particular, Since 1996, Have Expanded The Range Of Circumstances Under Which They Might Use - They Say They Might Use - Nuclear Weapons.