SO Mr Kemp thinks that a person who believes in terrorists being caught and punished like any other common criminal, must have a change of direction to also believe that all weapons should be abolished?

He must have developed the "tunnel vision" that is an essential part of the make-up of the single issue unilateral abolitionists.

The desire for law breakers to be caught is complementary to the desire to see all weapons destroyed and negotiations given a chance. The claim that two atomic bombs dropped on Japan are the greatest acts of terrorism in history is very strange. Some 300,000 were either killed or had their health destroyed by it, true enough.

However, the Holocaust with its six million Jews, and a further six million criminals, homosexuals, gypsies and others, spread over 12 years of slow torture, was surely far worse. The destruction of Stalingrad and other Russian cities was also on a larger scale of casualties.

Several million Chinese were murdered by Japanese troops, as were many Asians of all nationalities. We won't count the number of Allied troops in slave labour camps. They were told that the Japanese did not recognise the Geneva Conventions.

Talking of which, how do the Taliban/al qaeda prisoners on Cuba qualify for legal advisers if they are, as some people claim, POWs?

The CND, with their prancing about with banners, parading and demonstrating against the "V" bombers and the US air force, achieved absolutely nothing. The nuclear weapons are too devastating to be used. This was known to all parties, without any demos to remind them.

Question: What is the difference between a weapon of mass destruction and a mass of weapons of destruction? Answer: The weapons of mass destruction have not, since 1945, been used, whereas the mass of weapons of destruction have.

Conventional weapons have, since 1945, been used to kill and maim hundreds of thousands. They have been responsible for the large scale destruction of crops, and prevented the sowing of more crops, thus causing starvation to an unprecedented scale.

Perhaps the CND/STW coalition should think about a change of direction too?

Mr F Isherwood

Latham Road

Blackrod, Bolton