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Hiroshima Day plea to stop expensive Trident nuclear weapons project

Hiroshima Day, an apt time to question Trident, , guardian.co.uk, 6 August 2011, While the government slashes public services and conventional military forces, billions are being poured into nuclear projects  

with today the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, that other image of destruction from Japan leaves many questioning why on Earth we would countenance building a new nuclear weapons capable of causing death and destruction thousands of times worse than the havoc wreaked by a natural disasters and the fall-out from Fukushima……  more and more people are questioning why the government claims that it needs to impose savage cuts on almost all areas of our public services while billions are still being poured into huge military projects that have no relevance to the defence of Britain.

Defence experts have spoken out publicly and former ministers, includingLord Browne of Ladyton, are now actively involved in top level groups on disarmament…………

Trident was excluded from the defence review, its funding guaranteed, when many other public spending commitments were cut back…..

There is no longer a case for wasting Ministry of Defence resources on nuclear weapons. What better time than Hiroshima Day to renew our commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons, and continue the campaign to make it a reality.   http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/06/hiroshima-day-trident-nuclear

August 7, 2011 - Posted by | UK, weapons and war

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