Nuclear weapons
Sir,—Those contaminated fish from Mururoa are red herrings. Talk of cracks in the coral and escape of radioactivity diverts attention from the crucial question of actual nuclear armaments. When I was on board the New Zealand protest frigate, Canterbury, to monitor radioactivity reaching the ship at Mururoa in 1973, I said on the ship’s television that personally I was there to protest, not at the traces of radioactivity spread by the nuclear weapon tests, but at the development of instruments of mass murder. I would say the same today. Anyone seeing the current series on TV2 on nuclear warfare, must realise that civilisation and much of the human race are in mortal peril. New Zealand is in a unique position, here in the South Pacific, to help lead humanity back. Let's not fuss over side issues, but concentrate on the establishment of the nuclear weapon free zone and a policy of positive neutrality for New Zealand.— Yours, etc., JIM McCAHON. December 15, 1981.
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