Nuclear tests

Nuclear tests

In his letter to The Jakarta Post, July 22, 1995, the French ambassador mentions his country's determination to stage "environmentally safe" nuclear tests. He then goes on to reaffirm the French intention to sign the proposed nuclear test ban treaty.

If his first statement is correct, why bother with a complex, difficult to enforce, test ban treaty? Surely the answer is to train other nuclear nations in the use of the environmentally safe French method, then let them all bang away to their heart's content forever?

CHRIS HEAD

Bandung, West Java