See no nukes, hear no nukes.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: The time has come to talk about Israel's nuclear weapons - Editorial

Israel's nuclear weapons are never mentioned by our government, and only rarely discussed by the media, so I welcomed Lew Butler's recent op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's Time to Talk About Israel's Nukes, and Ours Too." Iran knows that Israel has nuclear weapons--Butler estimates two hundred or so. Although I'm definitely not eager for Iran to acquire nukes, it seems understandable for Iranians to ask, Why shouldn't we have them too? Our concern about nukes seems to apply only to our enemies...