Letter: UNM shouldn't be host to weapons development

Editor,

I concur with Robert Anderson's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo, especially the significant alarm that nuclear weapon development and its imminent use is readily accepted in this post-9/11 world.

I am intellectually, morally and spiritually saddened that UNM would host a playground for nuclear weapons - the same weapons the Bush regime is telling many countries they cannot have.

The following is a brief summary of the development of true weapons of mass destruction: first, there is think-tank development of weapons; second, weapon production; third, weapon testing; fourth, weapon use; and fifth, weapon replenishment. The success of war-weapon profiteers demands the cycle be completed over and over again.

This cycle comes from the same diabolical administration that continues to "stay the course," as it puts it, as if this were some devious fairy tale. The truth, in real life, is that about 100 Iraqis and other human beings in that area die every day. It's as if this were par for the course. Is it fitting that UNM, an institute of higher learning, would so gladly accommodate those that could destroy the planet?

I think we sleep too well.

Stan Serafin

Daily Lobo reader