3y Har Sloan
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-03Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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mon were busily flying in added equipment to prepare their Cruise missiles for firing at any time from the end of this year.
Ironically, while the Tories use the argument of the need to safeguard nuclear weapons from the public as a pretext for their threats of violence, the US air force plans for Cruise involve the unhindered regular transportation of the missiles on mobile launchers around neighbouring country roads.
Elusive
This plan - to make them a more elusive target for any possible Soviet counter-strike - is one factor which ensures that the missiles' arrival at Greenham Common endangers not just the immediate neighbourhood, but tens of millions of people across Southern Englands.
The mere construction of Cruise - which is an offensive, first strike weapon, and a deliberate new American escalation of the arms race - brings the danger of nuclear war and mass slaughter that much closer.