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Nuclear Submarine HMS Vanguard Passes HMS Dragon Returns to HMNB Clyde, Scotland

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“House of Commons Hansard: UK’s Nuclear Deterrent
18 July 2016 Volume 613
8.26 pm 
Mhairi Black (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) (SNP)

Government Members seem to have the idea that we in the Scottish National party are against nuclear weapons for some kind of romanticised reason, but the reality is that we are against nuclear weapons and renewing Trident for logical reasons.



First, we have to remember the fact that, fundamentally, Trident is a weapon.

We have already established that we would not fire first, so the only time that we would ever use this weapon would be if somebody launched a nuclear strike against us.

To be frank, that would mean that we were all dead anyway. If I am dying, I do not care if we send a weapon back; I am more worried about the…