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Jeremy Corbyn has got it right about Trident nuclear missiles

Corbyn is right about Trident – and his team should realise that, The Independent 9 Nov 15 

Even if it were true that nuclear weapons could help to defend the realm, it is beyond our means – we will be paying some £100bn over We’ve been unable to afford properly independent nuclear weapons since the early 1960s, when a combination of cost and technical failure meant that Britain had to abandon its truly independent nuclear weapon, and was forced to rent some gear from the Americans, who might or might not let us use it “independently”.
This pursuit of national prestige will be ruinously expensive.40 years for something that is really controlled by the US
  • Sean O’Grady
  • @_seanogrady “…………We talk as if we were still a world force, or had some right to be, and as if Trident will deliver us peace and power because our “enemies” will fear us all the more. Maybe it will, although there is scant evidence of it.
  • The nation has just remembered and honoured those who fell in two world wars, but also in all those conflicts in the nuclear age – Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. At no point were nuclear weapons of any use. Nor did they win the Cold War. It was the Americans who did that for us, just as they did for non-nuclear powers such as Germany or Italy. The Russians, despite Mikhail Gorbachev’s warm working relationship with Margaret Thatcher, regarded the British, like the French, as nuclear footnotes at best. Neither the Kremlin, the IRA, Saddam Hussein, nor the Taliban have been that bothered about Trident or those magnificent Vulcan bombers we see at air shows.
  • Even if it were true that nuclear weapons could help to defend the realm – because the future is uncertain and new threats can always emerge – the truth we cannot face up to as a nation is that it is beyond our means. We will be paying some £100bn over 40 years for something that is really controlled by the United States. Mad…..http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/corbyn-is-right-about-trident-and-his-team-should-realise-that-a6726486.html

November 9, 2015 - Posted by | general

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