BR writes that he has been reading Rotblat's paper about H-bomb tests in The New Scientist and other parts of the same journal, and is unsure as to the perspective he should be taking in his own piece on H-bomb tests. "I cannot treat the subject politically without expressing controversial opinions and I rather gather that The New Scientist would not wish for such opinion as opposed to scientific fact."

BR expresses his own views, that the tests should be abandoned by an international agreement, which if cannot be met, then should be abandoned by the government. "Is it in order for me to express these views in such an austerely factual journal?"