Antinuclear

Adam Dempsey 11 Mar 14 The Age is to be commended for its sane stance on nuclear disarmament (‘Australia’s nuclear question mark’, 11//3). As a race, we tend not to invent, develop, test and maintain things and not use them. Put it this way, Australians: nuclear weapons also threaten your favourite sport. Perhaps it also needs to be made clearer that a mere 0.03% of the power of today’s nukes would also induce a sudden climate change, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (http://bos.sagepub.com/content/68/5/66).
The thing is, if Foreign Affairs Minister Bishop had cared to read the proposed Nuclear Weapons Convention (ban treaty) she would see that it stipulates the very “sustained, practical steps needed for effective disarmament” to which she ignorantly claims we “still have a long way to go.”