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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
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Subject: Re: The Big Lie
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 15:36:56 EST
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> > 2)The Soviets *have* unilaterally stopped all their nuclear testing.
> >   They have stopped such testing since last August.  Yet the US refuses
> >   to stop its testing (specifically Reagan refuses to stop and to this date
> >   Congress has not cutoff funds for nuclear testing) Indeed Reagan
> >   ordered a nuclear test soon after the Geneva Summit in case there was
> >   any doubt of his determination to continue the nuclear arms race.
> .
> >    tim sevener  whuxn!orb
>
> The Soviets offered this test ban only AFTER THEY WERE DONE.  Offering their
> test ban meant nothing to them since they did not have anymore planned
> in the near future.  Awfully generous of them, eh Tim?  You also implied that
> the Soviets have cutoff funds for testing, how about posting your source.
> No testing != no testing planned for the future.
>
Recently I have read that Gorbachov extended the suspention of tests
since US have not done any tests in the meantime.  Less recently,
I have read that US wants to tests the conversion of nuclear explosion
into a directed X-ray beam, and that this is probably the reason that
the administration refuses a test ban.

It seems that none of the sides needs any tests to build additional warheads:
the principles of their action are known sufficiently.  What Reagan
wants is to have the right to develop completely new kinds of weapons.
Otherwise, WE ARE ALSO DONE with nuclear tests.

> Now suppose we finish our current testing and ask the Soviets to continue
> theirs, what do you really think will happen when the Soviets are ready
> for their next round of testing?
>
>       Tom Hill

If this were the case, Reagan could propose to enact a ban on tests effective,
say, in two years from now.  But he did not do it.

Piotr Berman