THE GREAT DETERRENT
Sir- Your excellent editorial "The Great Deterrent" in March 29 issue prompts me to submit the following letter, which I hope you will print, as I feel too much cannot be said about this subject at the present time. The sands are running out fast. Soon it will be too late for England to retrieve the prestige she lost over the Suez blunder. This she could regain by abandoning the hydrogen bomb tests at Christmas Island, and giving a lead to the two opposing forces in the world, United States and Russia. What is England to gain by holding "* tests? If the latest bomb can wipe out
the whole of England, what is the use of having the bomb as a deterrent? The first bomb used against her would finish England. This mad race has got to be stopped now before more dangerous weapons are perfected, and before more countries develop the bomb, for then it would be finish. If United States and Russia won’t stop the tests, let England give the lead, and all the smaller countries combine to bring pressure to bear through the United Nations Organisation, to stop this headlong race towards the abyss. And this is a challenge to the Churches, who. should be right in the forefront. What outcry was there from them in support of the Japanese, when they were heroically proposing to sail to the danger area as a protest against the tests? What do the islanders in the Pacific think of our brand of Christianity, that can consent to releasing radioactivity to contaminate sea and air and endanger their lives? A ‘Bible in one hand and the atom bomb in the other! No wonder they are bewildered and confused. The very stones should cry out against our inhuman apathy.
PAT
DENBY
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 11
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303THE GREAT DETERRENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 924, 26 April 1957, Page 11
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