Aust. quiet on ‘nuclear casualty’
NZPA-AAP Canberra Australia’s Ministery of Defence, Mr Kim Beazley, has refused to comment on reports that Australia’s North-West Cape communications base could be an early nuclear casualty under United States Navy strategy. Mr Beazley’s office referred to the Prime Minister, Mr Bob Hawke’s Parliamentary statement on the United States bases, on June 6, 1984, in which he said: “The Government believes that hosting the facilities does bring with it some degree of added risk of nuclear attack.”
According to reports from the United States, the navy has officially acknowledged that if a conventional war broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union, it might seek to attack Soviet submarines carrying long-range nuclear weapons. Strategic analysts are concerned about the strategy saying it would be unduly provocative and made the North-West Cape base a primary nuclear target.
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