The treaty for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons which the United States Senate is urged to ratify, is one of the greatest hoaxes ever foisted on the American people. The Establishment urges its acceptance on the ground that it is a deterrent to the horror of nuclear warfare and a significant step toward peace. Unless Senator Goldwater and other clearsighted conservatives take a firm stand, there is danger that this pact will be railroaded to confirmation. Particularly now that Mr. Nixon is behind it.
Most Americans apparently believe that this pact, which forbids all signatories to give nuclear equipment and know-how to any non-nuclear power, would help exorcise the danger of nuclear warfare; that it represents some kind of mutual self-denying ordinance by Washington and Moscow in the interest of world peace. Nothing could be farther from the truth; seldom have so many people been fooled about the real significance of a treaty: It is a deal for the nuclear domination of the world by the United States and the Soviet Union, with Red China an increasingly powerful silent partner.
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