Prospects for New Zealand

New Zealand's response to the worsening international situation is a separate question, which there is not space here to go into in detail. However, in the opinion of this writer. New Zealand should adopt an independent foreign policy. We should break off our alliance with the USA and seek unity with the third world on such contentious international issues as the New International Economic Order nuclear free peace zones, 200 mile economic zones and the like.

Such a policy would extract us as much as possible from the arena of superpower contention; it would help delay the outbreak of a new world war and it would make it much harder for the US to drag us into any of its own foreign adventures.

With respect to nuclear weapons, nothing short of the complete destruction of nuclear weapons and stockpiles is necessary. New Zealand should call for a conference of all heads of state to implement this ban. This does not mean that such a ban is politically possible in the present international situation. However, as this article has shown, anything less than a compere ban leaves gaping loopholes for the arms race to continue.