George Monbiot: Building bigger nuclear weapons will make us even less secure
Three weeks ago, the Royal Navy announced that it is spending £125m upgrading the Faslane naval base on the River Clyde in Scotland. The base houses the submarines which carry the UK’s Trident missiles… [T]he spending has been approved before parliament or the public has had a chance to decide whether it is necessary: what it means, in effect, is that the Trident replacement programme has already begun.
Posted on January 24th, 2006 at 9:39pm under UK politics
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Good. Nuclear weapons are so cost-effective.