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Britain expects to keep nuclear missile base in Scotland

Britain says Scottish independence vote not forcing nuclear base rethink Yahoo News 7,  March 14, 2014, BARROW-IN-FURNESS, England (Reuters) – Britain is making no contingency plans for moving its nuclear forces out of Scotland because the government does not expect Scots to vote for independence on September 18, Defence Minister Philip Hammond said on Thursday.

Britain’s submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles are based at the Faslane naval base northwest of the Scottish city of Glasgow, so a vote to break the 307-year union could cost the government billions of dollars to move the naval base………

Scottish nationalists have said they would want to remove all Britain’s nuclear missiles from Scottish soil in the first term of a Scottish parliament after a vote for independence.http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/21969523/britain-says-scottish-independence-vote-not-forcing-nuclear-base-rethink/

March 14, 2014 - Posted by | general

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