To the Editor:
You offer a comprehensive picture of the threat of the vast, poorly controlled quantities of fissionable materials that now exist throughout the world (editorial, Sept. 27).
As someone who worked in the atomic bomb project in World War II, I have long believed that foolproof control of these materials is essential to continued peace in the world.
How constructive it would be for the United States to propose an enhanced worldwide program through the United Nations that would truly control fissionable agents. If we backed such a proposal with money that is even 10 percent of what we would spend on a war with Iraq, there could be remarkable results. What better investment in our national security could we make?
This would be a program that would find worldwide support and good will. It would not serve to fragment the international community, as our present policies are now doing.
NORMAN D. CARTER
Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Oct. 1, 2002
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