Naval power
Sir,—Nick Lee-Frampton’s article on super-Power naval patterns (April 23) highlights how the hosting of bases and military exercises from one nuclear power draws in the other. Using Christchurch airport for Orion aircraft that detect and destroy submarines could provoke the Typhoonlaunched nuclear missile that he fears. Regular and comprehensive naval visits from the United States officially acknowledged to have “strategic” significance in the A.N.Z.U.S. Canberra Communique, 1982, are similarly provocative. Instead of harbouring nuclear targets, New Zealand would be much safer with things the nuclear powers would protect, such as their essential electronic data and the schoolchildren of decision makers. Only as a neutral, nuclear weapons-free zone, could we offer and maintain such services evenhandedly. As a trusted neutral nation, we could help to reduce the tensions producing the arms race and threatening the final world war. — Yours, etc., F. GALLAGHER. April 23, 1984.
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