THE DEADLY DUST
Sir,-You are to be congratulated on your editorial, "The Deadly Dust" (Listener, June 29)..I am sure it still takes a great deal of courage to say that bomb tests should be stopped, because this is contrary to current political and military opinion. But it is, after all, the opinion of most men and women not only in this country, but the world ever. Yet the atomic explosions continue and we are told they will continue, e.g., at. ironically, Christmas Island. Meanwhile radio-active rain is falling in Japan, and Australia, What, then, can
be done?
K.
BREHMER
(Auckland).
Sir,-I should like to @xpress my appreciation of your editorial "The Deadly Dust." The possibility that bomb tests may have detrimental effects upon the health of people within range of the resulting radio-active dust must be a matter of serious concern to many, and it is time we questioned the necessity for continuing the tests. To most of us, I am sure, the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima was test enough. Atomic research has progressed greatly since then. Is it necessary that we should go any further in our quest of deadliness? Atomic weapons, as they are today, appear to be sufficiently effective, though their real use-as they render bombed areas uninhabitable-may be questioned. Is it right, therefore, that ordinary people should be exposed to the dangerous possibility of ruined health or lingering death for the satisfaction of unnecessary scientific curiosity? We have the weapons. Is it not time to stop, and consider whether we shall ever dare to use them? And if so, how?
G. M.
RICHARDSON
(Te Puke).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 5
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270THE DEADLY DUST New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 5
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