Nuclear stance
Sir,—Spearheaded by the Prime Minister, Russell Marshall and Phil Goff, all supporters of the “peace movement,” we have New Zealand being driven to near paranoia and hysteria over this nuclear thing. The Prime Minister used the threat of nuclear war in a fear campaign to gain votes. In this he was successful. The recent saturation by the media (mainly radio) about apocalypse tomorrow is ridiculous. I lived and worked in the Hiroshima Bay area for more than two years, not long after the big bang. I also spent considerable time in the Nagasaki-Sasebo area. Forty-two years on I am still around and, although I abhor what happened, one cannot un-invent what is extant. The Prime Minister and his colleagues would do well to come down from their “ivory tower.” Isolation is no consolation. — Yours, etc., THOMAS J. FORDE. September 2, 1987.
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