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Independent Scotland would demand removal of Trident nuclear base

Nuclear weapons ‘outlawed’ in an independent Scotland, says Salmond, BBC News  21 Oct 12, The leader of the SNP has said that if his party won power in an independent government it would make nuclear weapons illegal.

Alex Salmond told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that Trident, which currently resides at Faslane Naval base on the Clyde, would have to go.

He also said a go-alone Scotland would remain a member of the European Union….. He said: “The UK government has two choices – they either relocate Trident to another part of the rest of the UK or alternatively they could use nuclear facilities in America or France.”

Mr Salmond made a further point that it was possible for a UK government to decide a “much better policy” and decommission its weapons system….. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-20020839

October 22, 2012 - Posted by | politics, UK, weapons and war

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