Byron Dorgan: “I am going to talk briefly about an issue I think is really very important dealing with the country of India and nuclear…”

“I am going to talk briefly about an issue I think is really very important dealing with the country of India and nuclear weapons that are possessed by India and other countries around the world. Yesterday, one of my colleagues in the Senate indicated that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. I guess he was referring to some inert artillery shells that were produced in the 1980s for the Iran-Iraq war. No one believes those are weapons of mass destruction. That is an absurd claim. I think it has been described as absurd by nearly everybody. But since the subject of weapons of mass destruction has been raised I want to make a few comments. I have in my desk in the Senate a piece of metal. I ask unanimous consent to show it on the floor of the Senate. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.”