Nuclear submarine launching
Sir, — Your news item on the launching of the Trident nuclear submarine Ohio (April 9), did not mention that this vessel along with the next 12 would be deployed in the Pacific. The Trident 2 missile will have a range of 6000 nautical miles after 1985. Is this what Mr Gill meant when he said in January that more nuclear submarines would be coming to New Zealand as the new models had a greater range? It is impossible to envisage the firepower of the Trident fleet: Thirty submarines, each with the firepower equivalent to more than 2000 Hiroshimas — more than all the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union has already. Let New Zealand have no part in this insanity. At least we can work for a nuclear free zone in the Pacific, an end to visits by nuclear warships, and to work with all other nations to make the United States and the Soviet Union take disarmament seriously before they destroy us all with their Tridents and its Soviet near equivalent, the Delta class submarines. — Yours, etc., PETER D. JONES. April 9, 1979.
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Press, 11 April 1979, Page 24
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