Not Impressed with Professor Hugh White’s pro nuclear weapons stance
Fallout would be too great from any nuclear capability, SMH, July 03, 2019 Chris Danckwerts, Turramurra, Here we go again. More people wanting to spend more billions, or trillions, on increasing our defence budget (‘‘No avoiding our vulnerability’’, July 2). We will always be vulnerable with our huge exposed coastline. Spending billions on expensive submarines and fighter jets changes nothing. They will be quickly brushed aside by any superpower that wants to take us over. Why bother? Just concentrate on small peacekeeping forces in our neighbourhood and spend the money we could save on something more useful. –
Allan Kreuiter, Roseville, A few years ago we were told we had to spend $100 billion on overseas-built submarines so we could support our allies in US and Europe and they would protect us. Now we are being told we have to spend $50 billion extra on more fighters and submarines because we can’t rely on these allies to protect us! What is the common factor here? Other than huge spending of taxpayers’ dollars by defence ministers who go on to jobs in the defence industry? –
Margaret Grove, Abbotsford, To Professor Hugh White: That nuclear umbrella you talk about looks awfully like a mushroom cloud of fallout to me, and I don’t really want to be under it. – Helen Lewin, Tumbi Umbi
First Trump wants us to go to war with Iran and now we’re supposed to have nuclear weapons. Can’t we, as an island nation, be Switzerland? –
Steve Johnson, Elizabeth Beach I remember similar proposals during the Red Peril hysteria in the 1950s and ’60s. One Chinese multi-warhead missile would eliminate Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Why would they want to do this, unless we had launched a suicidal first nuclear strike? Let’s stay out of the megadeath club. – Steve Bright, North Avoca …..
We need to reduce defence spending and focus it on assistance to Pacific nations by cancelling the $50 billion submarine project and the 100 F35-A fighters at $115million each. A GDP spend of say, 1.5 per cent would mean we could have a ‘‘wellbeing’’ budget with billions for the care of the most vulnerable. -……. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/fallout-would-be-too-great-from-any-nuclear-capability-20190702-p523fm.html
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