Naval ship visit restores common sense to NZ-US relationsThe US is poised to send a ship into New Zealand waters to celebrate the New Zealand Navy's 75th birthday. JOHN SELKIRK/FAIRFAX MEDIA Nuclear ship USS Truxtun at anchor in Wellington Harbour in 1980 on her second visit to New Zealand. OPINION: It took 30 years, but common sense has finally been restored to New Zealand-US relations. The long-standing US policy of neither confirming or denying whether a ship is nuclear armed or propelled meant they could not contradict that advice. And like the ban on military training and exercises - long since abandoned - the absence of US ships from New Zealand long ago stopped making sense.

Source: Stuff July 20, 2016 20:37 UTC