IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Devastating

Socialist Challenge No. 142, 10 April 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 252 words

The scan: sc-n142-apr-10-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 11 of the scan

The international armament been raised by four * The Cruise missile. The Boeing AGM86B missile represents a major breakthrough in weapons technology, and a major threat to the USSR. With a range of 5,000 kilometers, it has a self-correcting guidance system which can deliver a nuclear warhead withir Because it flies conventional radar, hugging the terrain, it is extremely difficult to develop a counter-missile system against it. (Tests show it has a forty per cent failure rate - but the terrain it 'accidentally' ploughs into is unlikely to be in the US as they will all * The neutron bomb. This 'dirty' announced in July 1977, is designed to kill people to in olner words, it is for use towns and then repopulating them under the control The cruise missiles are deployed in Lakenheath, Upper Hessford and Sculthorpe. This makes Britain even more of a target for the USSR's nuclear arsenal.

The effects on Britain of a nuclear war would be completely devastating. Apart from the numerous warheads pointed at London, Ine UsoK Ild undoubtedly reserved at least megatons for the US airforce's British nerve-centre at South Ruislip Middlesex.

Bomb single 100-megaton exploded over London would cause a firestorm stretching from Brighton in the South to Reading in the West. The undoubtedly, be wiped out. Despit the Tories' inanity that "15 million' could survive a nuclear attack, reality thạt for most population there is no defence from nuclear attack except to stop it happening in the first place.

being Suffolk,

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