Australian defence
Sir,—Beside the trade cost of the nuclear ships’ decision, there has to be a defence cost. The Australians are uptight because many of them believe that Australia’s forces are totally inadequate to defend Australia against a conventional attack. Since Australia contains some of the world's largest deposits of finite resources that should be a sobering thought. For realistic defence Australia must have a big brother to provide real muscle and that big brother is the United States, nuclear warts
and all. New Zealand ignores the Australian defence dilemma at its peril. This means that we have to support A.N.Z.U.S., which relies on American warships as its first line of defence. Even though these ships might yet fight in conventional war they are nearly all nuclear-cap-able. You cannot therefore pretend that A.N.Z.U.S. is non-nuclear. The real issue of the no-ships debate is, do we intend to share in the defence of Australia or do we not? — Yours, etc., M. GREENE. March 7, 1985.
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