Winston Peters has a message for school children: If nuclear war breaks out, we're all doomed.
The New Zealand First leader delivered the grim warning to a group of schoolchildren while appearing on TVNZ's Face The Classroom, in which electoral candidates are grilled by 8-12 year olds on a number of issues.
When one student asked Peters how New Zealand would protect itself if World War III began, the New Zealand First leader had a blunt - and bleak - response.
"I hate to give you this terrible information, but I don't think if it started in a nuclear sense that we could," he said.
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