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Letter: Why do we need nuclear testing?

(AP file photo)  An aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

(AP file photo) An aerial view after the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, N.M., on July 16, 1945.

I and many others — especially “downwinders” and their families — are extremely curious: Can someone explain logically exactly why we would have any reason to restart testing nuclear weapons? Don’t we already know that they work?

Alan Linett, Sandy

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