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A South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Is Irresponsible |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Peter Samuel |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,098 Words, 6,802 Characters |
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Guam Rep. Ben Blaz (see THE WORLD & I, September 1987) provides readers with an excellent listing of some of the arguments for and against the United States signing the protocols of the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone Treaty, which has been urged by many South Pacific governments. But it is not, as he suggests, in the interest of Western defense to sign or encourage the SPNFZ (or Spinfizz as it is rendered in speech).
The Spinfizz treaty in its inspiration is a product of the international peace movement and in its detailed wording the design of Australian politicians and diplomats. The peace movement in the South Pacific, as elsewhere, is heavily influenced by the Soviets and their political friends, as its connections with the World Peace Council establish. Nuclear-weapon-free zo...
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...ployed, if some of us can opt out and let the rest carry the bag.
The U.S. nuclear deterrent has given us peace with freedom for almost half a century and will continue to be needed as long as the Soviets remain politically expansionist and nuclear armed. The Spinfizz treaty erodes and constrains the U.S. nuclear deterrent and that of its ally France, and therefore it should be opposed.
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