In the attached article, entitled "Nukes: Test Them or Lose Them, " Secretary Schlesinger makes clear that the United States is taking potentially grave risks if it is unable realistically to test the effects of aging on a stockpile that is approaching the end of its designed shelf-life.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Vice President Joe Biden reportedly dismissed the prospects of such Senate opposition and felt confident that he could ram through not only a START follow-on but the previously rejected Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), all without addressing the serious problems identified by the Perry-Schlesinger Commission and now by a decisive faction in the Senate.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: START over