Perhaps we’ve been wondering if our government was doing enough to protect us from foreign foes by referring Iran to the Security Council for its ambition to develop a nuclear bomb in 10 years’ time. And my looking for ways to prevent North Korea’s malevolent regime from developing a missile that wouldn’t just drown in the Sea of Japan, but would fly 3,000 miles of Pacific Ocean and drop a bomb on the U.S.

So, we can take comfort in the Bush administration’s long-term plan, unveiled last spring, to resume production of nuclear bombs. After all, those 2,300 we have on hand from Cold War days are probably getting rusty.

The project would be to produce 125 annually, at a new facility that would also be the national storage site for plutonium. The new facility would be completed around 2022. So, in the intervening years, we could have easy minds and occupy ourselves with only the “war on terror.” And, if hard-pressed, we could try out one of the old bombs.

It is reported that funding for the project will be requested of Congress in February 2007. Shouldn’t we say something about this to our representatives in Congress?

Dorothy E. Prince, Auburn