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Military expert declares UK’s Trident nuclear weapons are unnecessary

My personal view is that there is a future without the deterrent.”

(UK) MoD cuts: ‘no need for nuclear deterrent’  Channel 4 News 13 August 2010 As Defence Secretary Liam Fox pledges cuts for the Ministry of Defence, a former Royal Navy commander tells Channel 4 News that Britain does not need its Trident nuclear deterrent.

Michael Codner, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said: “My personal view is that there is a future without the deterrent.”

Mr Codner was responding to the Defence Secretary Liam Fox’s speech today, in which he said that there would have to be cuts in the “backroom” at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London so the government could afford to invest in troops on the frontline.

MoD cuts: ‘no need for nuclear deterrent’ – Channel 4 News

August 14, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, weapons and war | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons