Nuclear stance
Sir,—lf the National Party cannot come up with something more appropriate to the times than the antiquated views expressed by Mr McKinnon (July 25) about returning to A.N.Z.U.S. and the “Western Alliance,” then Heaven help us if National becomes the Government' Mr McKinnon has his wires crossed. New Zealand has . never stopped
being an ally of the United States. We stopped giving access to United States nuclear-capable ships, but it was the United States that petulantly froze us out of A.N.Z.U.S. A.N.Z.U.S. was notoriginally conceived as a nuclear-armed alliance! Most New Zealanders do not want nuclear weapons on our territory. Nor are we anxious to resume the A.N.Z.U.S. “defence” connection. Banning nuclear weapons is about the best way to protect New Zealand from nuclear attack. The guarantee by the nuclear Powers never to use nuclear weapons against States which renounce the possession of those weapons is not extended to allies of nuclear-armed States. — Yours, etc., COLIN BURROWS. July 26, 1989.
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