Nuclear weapons
Sir,—lf President Reagan’s remarks referred to in your editorial today have increased resistance to deployment of still more nuclear weapons, he has done humanity a service. We will be free of the menace of nuclear war only after successfully reversing preparations for it. Your final sentence is of great importance; the belief that a nuclear war could be won, would be likely to lead to its start. The ability to knock out the other side in a first strike would lead to this belief, and the enormously increasing accuracy of missiles leads towards this ability. However, this requires, for their navigation, greatly extended and improved star maps, to which the United States military observatory
proposed for Black Birch Hill, near Blenheim, is to contribute. Thus does New Zealand become implicated in preparations for the mass murdersuicide of nuclear war. Conscience demands that we do not allow that installation in this country.—Yours, etc., JIM McCAHON. October 26, 1981.
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