U.S. foreign policy
Sir, — In your excellent leading article about Mr Reagan’s reelection (November 10) you give many good reasons to fear that another four years of his presidency will plunge the world still
deeper into nuclear peril. As you say, his negotiating terms probably will remain unacceptable to the Soviet Union. New Zealanders should now question the insistence of our ally on . maintaining a nuclear superiority (for which its policy of “negotiation from strength” is a deceitful euphemism) on the ground that this is the driving force of the arms race. If America would only accept the principle of nuclear parity, the mainspring of the arms race would be broken. Until this happens, is it really sinister that the Soviet Union wishes not to fall too far behind? Have the Soviet people no right to feel that they, too, possess a secure nuclear deterrent, while this madness of deterrence lasts? — Yours, etc., ARTHUR WELLS. November 12, 1984.
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