Nuclear weapons
Sir,—Mr Haig, the United States Secretary of State, last November made a statement suggesting sending a nuclear warhead into Eastern Europe as a demonstration and warning against Soviet military build-up there. Although it was hastily retracted, this statement remains a clear indication of a considered option as European tension increases. It also clearly demonstrates the value of political pawns, that in the first wave of nuclear exchange it is the ally who will be expended. A powerful United States military presence in the Pacific makes us exceptionally targetable, not only because of the bases and .equipment we host but also because of what we represent, a close United States ally. Despite United Nations recommendation both the United States and Soviet Union, immersed in the nuclear contest, have opposed the setting up of nuclear weapon-free zones (Indian Ocean, 1971). The decision to declare a zone nuclear weapon-free will not. I agree, deflect Soviet missiles, but it will certainly reduce the impetus for attack. — Yours, etc.,
KEITH BURGESS. May 27, 1982.
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