INSTEAD of marking the 50th anniversary of the start of CND's failed campaign to get Britain to give up its nuclear weapons (Daily Echo, March 18), the organisation's time would be better spent celebrating the 21st anniversary of the signing of the 1987 Zero Option deal.
This eliminated the intermediate range Soviet SS-20 weapons and Nato's cruise and Pershing 2 missiles to the benefit of the world. Misguidedly this multilateral agreement was opposed by CND when it was originally put forward by President Reagan in 1981.
CND's disarmers are out of date, out of touch and out of any useful and practical ideas of any kind.
COLIN SMITH, Totton Branch, New Forest East Conservatives.
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