HC Deb 13 November 1984 vol 67 c221W
Mr. Norman Atkinson

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he agrees with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and United States defence chiefs that nuclear war is a feasible and sound defence strategy and survivable.

Mr. Stanley

The whole purpose of NATO's deterrence strategy is to ensure that neither nuclear nor conventional war ever occurs and that peace with freedom is preserved in Western Europe as it has been for almost 40 years.

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