Nuclear is Nuclear

What all this shows is that there is no such thing as "detente" between the two superpowers. Both superpowers are fighting hard to get an edge over the other, the talk about "detente" being an aspect of their rivalry. The "detente" policy is meant to lull the vigilance of the other superpower and the peoples of the world, while each prepares for war with the other.

As far as their capacity to murder is concerned, the hydrogen bomb, the atomic bomb and the neutron bomb are all nuclear weapons, and there is no difference between them as far as one being humane and another barbarous. Actually, there is evidence that the neutron bomb would reduce the number of human casualties compared with other tactical nuclear weapons. Some have claimed that the neutron bomb would reduce the destructive effects of previous tactical nuclear weapons on the civilian population and environment by 90 per cent. There would be fewer human casualties, as well as lessened damage to buildings, bunkers, tanks and other vehicles. The statement that the neutron bomb destroys only "life" is false. All nuclear weapons should be prohibited and destroyed for the sake of humanity. What kind of logic is it which says that the US neutron bomb, not yet deployed, is barbarous because it kills while allegedly leaving property intact, but says nothing about the Soviet missiles which destroy both people and propety on a much greater scale? It has been justly said that in the controversy over the neutron bomb, what people see are not "the inmates of a mad house" but the swindlers in the Kremlin!

Terry Auld