28 JUNE 1957, Page 18

NUCLEAR HORROR SIR,—I see a news item today, June 24,

which says that the Americans have dressed 800 pigs in army khaki and are to explode a nuclear device over them in Nevada to see what effect it has on these help- less animals. We talk glibly about Western Christian civilisation, as opposed to Communist atheism, but is it possible to believe in a God who could approve of this kind of experiment, or who could even wish the civilisation that practises such things to survive? —Yours faithfully,

Sr. Paul's Rectory, 14 Burleigh Street, Strand, WC2