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Letter: Back to the A-bomb

Published 2 April 2008

From Mel Tisdale

The problems currently being experienced by the Trident nuclear warhead programme (8 March, p 15) provide an excellent opportunity for a step towards eventual nuclear disarmament.

Instead of trying to make them operate as thermonuclear or hydrogen bombs, why not limit them to less-destructive fission or atom bombs only? The ability to destroy any target to the extent that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed ought to be more than enough.

Isleworth, Middlesex, UK

Issue no. 2650 published 5 April 2008

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