Dear Dr Rivero, Our Supervisory Editors have assessed the paper entitled Standard model masses and models of nuclei by A. Rivero and have reached the conclusion that your paper is too speculative and lacking in proper methodology. Therefore it falls outside the scope of Nuclear Physics A and cannot be considered for publication. Yours sincerely, Jeanette Bakker on behalf of the Editors of Nuclear Physics A Editorial Office of Nuclear Physics Elsevier Sara Burgerhartstraat 25 1055 KV Amsterdam The Netherlands E-mail: npa@elsevier.com Fax: +31 20 485 2370 Tel: +31 20 485 2533 Nuclear Physics is also available electronically through ...