IT HAS always saddened me that the world has nuclear weapons.

It says much about mankind that we are only safe because countries can deliver devastating weapons that would mutually assure destruction of the combatants.

The world has endured two terrible world wars, if there was a third it would probably end civilisation as we know it.

I do not believe the British people want unilateral nuclear disarmament, terrible as nuclear weapons are, they have deterred our enemies from using nuclear weapons against us.

Paddy Maxwell

Southampton