Nuclear disarmament with verification key

A letter to the editor that I thought was interesting:

From Syracuse.com: Nuclear disarmament with verification key

To the Editor:
The recent, Mitt Romney/Benjamin Netanyahu saber-rattling is very disturbing to a Vietnam era medic, who knows some Iranian history, taught to me by an Iranian on a nuclear physics scholarship at Michigan State University in 1960.
Most Americans are ignorant of the Central Intelligence Agency’s role in overthrowing Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the elected leader of Iran, in 1953. And, we have recently been involved in two wars — Iraq to the west of Iran and Afghanistan to the east of Iran. Suppose some other power had large military forces in Mexico and Canada. How would we like it? Perhaps, if we had any real leadership, we would focus on world disarmament, including Russia, China, Pakistan, India and, yes, Israel as well. We narrowly escaped a nuclear showdown in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and by 1983 both the USSR and the United States each had approximately 10,000 warheads — 500 would be enough to wipe out civilization as we have known it.
Yes, we need to persuade Iran to not go ahead with any nuclear weapons development; but, at the same time, we need to demonstrate an ability on our part to move away from war-mania of the recent past toward nuclear disarmament with verification.
Ken Howland
Port Byron