It is very encouraging that Dr Alan Barr is working on the large hadron collider, part of the Atlas Project, near Geneva (Oxford Mail, September 11).
Can all of us be involved in something a little bit simpler — persuading politicians to behave more like ordinary people?
The companies making huge amounts of money by making weapons should be put out of business.
People are fed up with the pretence of being morally good when they spend billions of dollars or roubles on H-bombs or napalm.
Weapons are made by criminals. When we pay money so that we can have endless wars, we ourselves become accessories to crime.
I'm not interested in politics. I'm not interested in being good.
Dr Barr's efforts are to be applauded.
A genuine 'peace on earth', not based on fear and deceit, is even more important.
If thousands of people are put out of work, so be it! Is making armaments really work? I thought work was doing something useful.
The conflict is between normal people on the one side and those who make profit out of suffering on the other.
HANS HAMMERSCHMIDT Cricket Road Oxford
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