Is half a Hiroshima OK?

We are clearly going in the WRONG direction as a nation. We are starting up the nuclear arms race again, after we were just beginning to get it slowed down. And this is all to stop terrorists who were using box cutters? You don't need nuclear arms to defeat box cutters. And you don't need nuclear arms to protect us. You need DIPLOMACY. Diplomacy that works to mend fences, counter terrorism, build allies, and defuse rhetoric. Diplomacy works-- we know that! What nuclear escalation on our part does is to reinvigorate the interest in nuclear arms of other countries that want to protect themselves against us, who want to arm themselves against us, and who want to use these weapons against their own enemies. And those countries that wish to fight their enemies with nuclear weapons can no longer say that there isn't a precedent. Because the Bush's diplomacy isn't working-- in fact it's a complete disaster. The Cold War is starting back up again. And we have Bush's prehistoric, right-wing administration to thank for that.

Is half a Hiroshima OK? Is a quarter Hiroshima OK? Is a little mushroom cloud OK? That's absurd. The issue is too important. If we build it, we'll use it...
We are literally talking about whether or not the United States will initiate a nuclear arms race again. Nothing that I can think of meets this in terms of gravity and its impact on the future of the world....
I deeply believe this bill places America at a crossroads in the conduct of foreign policy, and how we determine nuclear weapons policy will go a long way to determining whether we control nuclear proliferation or expand it. This bill will expand it. Let there be no doubt....
I cannot think of a single issue that should more define the political agenda today than whether the United States should go back into the nuclear business again...

Bush must be defeated in 2004.