START ME UP

The START treaty between the US and Russia is the latest in the hugely successful disarmament agreements we have had since the invention of the stick and rock. Efforts to disarm have increased since the invention of Nuclear weapons. Our Senate and House of Representatives RUSHED to passage of this legislation, again without actually reading it, as is their tradition. The lame duck session shoved this through as if we would have WW3 by next Tuesday if we didn't. After much fanfare and the signing of the agreement by our President with a dozen pens so everybody could get a souvenir pen for their collection, they announced to the world that we were on the cusp of global safety as a result of this landmark treaty. The Russian response was a deafening "We are not ready to sign and are going to take our sweet time and maybe get to it in a month or so."

I don't know about the rest of you but personally, I feel much more at ease knowing that the remaining nuclear weapons AFTER the treaty will only be capable of blowing up the entire world 100 times over rather than 200 times over as they were before the treaty. I guess we could call it the bigger particle treaty after the size of the pieces of Earth that would remain after we nuked one another with the weapons we had left. If this trend continues we might have no nuclear weapons by the year 2525, except for Iran and North Korea who are not signatories to this treaty. Here's an opportunity we have not though of before...what if we sell our nukes to Iran and North Korea and some unstable African Dictatorships for a whole lot of money? We could get rid of that huge federal deficit and the nukes with one move. Just saying.