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Letter: Strike on Iraq

For years we were told that our possession of nuclear weapons was a deterrent against attack by the Soviet Union on a basis of mutually assured destruction. Why are such weapons not now an effective deterrent against the use of chemical and biological weapons by Iraq?

CHARLES HUGHES

Felixstowe, Suffolk

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