Missile defence
Sir,—So Scientists Against Nuclear Arms set themselves up as defence experts (“The Press,” May 7). It is a pity they do not try to establish their credentials, and surprising that they follow a long tradition of like names for communist fellow-traveller organisations. The lessons they claim to draw from the Falklands conflict are a gross distortion, but to assert that anti-submarine and submarine capability is unnecessary for New Zealand’s defence shows clearly what their masters would like us to believe. Our economy depends upon the merchant ships which carry our trade. It is highly vulnerable to the vast submarine fleet of the Soviet bloc and yet these "scientists” say W’e must not defend our
vital interests. Presumably they realise that with our trade cut off, the results would be little different from those outlined in the Royal Society’s paper on the outcome of a nuclear war in the Northern Hemisphere. — Yours, etc.,
JOHN S. PALLOT. May 7, 1985.
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