EXPERIMENTS AT BIKINI
Sir,-The article "Co-operation or Chaos" and others you have published on the atomic problem constitute a challenge to thinking people. The United Nations outlawed atomic war weapons, but with cynical indifference, the U.S.A. goes ahead with atomic bomb manufacture; Britains follows suit, and Russia claims to have outdistanced others. The U.S.A. plans for experiments at Bikini for the purpose of "training army and air force personnel in atomic attacks against ships" — declared by Admiral Nimitz to be "difficult and unprofitable targets for atomic bombs." The Governments concerned are deliberately betraying the principles they have adopted as United Nations. It is a scandalous and revolting exhibition of international hypocrisy. We are on the way to the third world war-the atomic war, and nobody much seems to bother about it. But as the common people will be the eventual sufferers they should raise a clamour for the immediate stoppage of this costly and dangerous amusement of the war play-boys.
J. MALTON
MURRAY
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 5
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164EXPERIMENTS AT BIKINI New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 5
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