[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 100 (Monday, June 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6085-H6086]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTING

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, the French Government has announced that 
they are going to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific. This is 
a terrible precedent to be setting for the [[Page H 6086]] rest of the 
world as we try to encourage the Third World nations of this planet to 
back away from the nuclear weapons option. But worse, the United States 
Government has now begun the process themselves of following this 
French fashion of the season and going back to a nuclear testing 
regime. Nothing could be worse for the United States and for this world 
than if we ourselves set that poor example of testing nuclear weapons 
and, in fact, encouraging dozens of Third World countries across this 
planet to emulate us.
  There is a very idealistic and practical set of objectives which this 
country should be seeking to achieve as nuclear nonproliferation and 
biological weapons proliferation becomes the single greatest danger to 
peace and security on this planet.

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