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I was disappointed to read your editorial “Nuclear Pragmatism” in the June ’B5 PIM.

Your view of the “umbrella of American strength” keeping the Pacific free misses the point military strength doesn’t have to include nuclear strength. If it did, every military engagement would have to in clude nuclear weapons.

The argument used by many that a nuclear balance is neces sary to avoid nuclear war has much going for it. But how high does that balance have to be?

It is worth asking oneself just how many people the world over feel the world is safer now than back in 1945 when there were just two nuclear weapons?

Not many, I bet.

The nuclear stockpiles, East and West, need to be reduced not increased. Keeping the Pacific “nuclear-free” is one step in that direction.

Emmanuel Gumbo

Thornbury Vic.

Australia

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