Nuclear weapons
Sir, —On May 9 you published predictions of disaster in 1982 from the “Jupiter Effect” which, on examination, proves to be minute. But the biggest danger now, in 1982 and beyond, is nuclear world war. The complaints in the same issue, by unnamed Washington officials, about Mr Rowling’s stand on visits by nuclear warships, bear on this. Unless S.A.L.T. 11 turns out far better than appears likely, deployment of the Trident submarine-based nuclear weapons system in the Pacific will be well started. Its range allows New Zealand to be used as a support base, and pressure •to admit nuclear warships appears to be a prelude to this. It is suggested that the United States could not protect New Zealand without such ships; nuclear weapons are not mentioned, but must be there. We would be safer without such "protection” than to become a nuclear weapons base, and thus also a target.—Yours, etc., JIM McCAHON. Rangiora. May 11, 1979.
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