[Anglican Opposition to Nuclear Explosions]
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- Date
- 1971 December 21
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- The Anglican Church of Canada is strongly opposed to all further nuclear explosions, Archbishop Ted Scott, the Primate, said today in a pre-Christmas statement.
- Even though the Chinese explosion last month was described as "a pipsqueak" by U.S. nuclear experts, he said, the Chinese are believed to be developing great sophistication in their nuclear armament systems. There is danger that competition among the world's superpowers may lead to more and more test explosions.
- "I very much opposed the U.S. blast early in November at Amchitka Island," Archbishop Scott said. "I was equally disturbed to learn of the Chinese explosion. The Church opposes all further nuclear explosions, but it is difficult to mount much public opposition to 'a pipsqueak'."
- The Chinese test was equivalent to about 20,000 tons of TNT, roughly the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. It was one-fivehundreth the size of the latest U.S. test at Amchitka, which was five megatons, or equivalent to five million tons of TNT.
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- Subjects
- Nuclear weapons - Testing - United States
- Nuclear weapons - Testing - China
- Nuclear weapons - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Nuclear disarmament - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada