Lee waffles on nuke tests

Mike Lee has more flips than an Olympic diver. First he supported compromising the health of Utahns by supporting renewed nuclear weapons explosions in Nevada. Then he was against nuclear weapons testing by detonation and for ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Now, Mike Lee has flipped once again and voiced opposition to a nuclear weapons treaty that will make sure that Utahns are never again submitted to the dangers of radioactive fallout.

Why is Lee busying himself with verbal acrobatics when most national security experts such as former National Security Advisor (and Utahn) Gen. Brent Scowcroft and current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates firmly stand their ground and say that ratifying the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty increases national security? We can only hope that Lee's flipping doesn't result in a belly flop of atomic proportions.

Sherry Milne

Salt Lake City