BR's letter includes the following message: "Civil defence is a cruel hoax. The shelter programme is a scheme of delusion. These shelters are cremation boxes because the fire storms that will result from nuclear war will represent a meteorological event.

I welcome and extend my hand to your protest. Human life is in imminent danger. We live from moment to moment with the immediate possibility of the nuclear clearing of life from the planet. Rockets poise on a hair trigger. Radar is incapable of distinguishing natural phenomena from missiles. Nuclear tests—premeditated murder—cost the lives of millions over many generations. These global butchers must be stopped. The question is when, if not now, and who, if not I?"