New Zealand must shake itself free of that childish anti-nuclear anchor around our necks.
For decades, New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance was a symbolic moral victory but a strategic economic blunder when it came to relations with the US.
It effectively froze NZ out of key military and trade agreements, setting the country back in areas where cooperation with Washington could have been mutually beneficial.
It was a great privilege for my generation to grow up admiring and being inspired by these remarkable people. It is clear that there are many role models for 10-year-old NZers today to be as inspired by as I was at Cooks Gardens in the 1970s.
The warnings were ignored. This was preventable. The question now is whether anyone will be held accountable, or whether we’ll simply wait for the next catastrophe.
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