Lots to say about Trident, from "waste of money", to "haven't we got more worthwhile objectives?".
Surely any Government with sense could see that we have urgent and important needs in this country and the wider world, yet they plan to spend this enormous amount £95Billion on a project which offers us nothing except a more unstable world, an arms race, and the removal of funds from all sectors. Fortunately there is an opposition with a sensible altenative, well not one in the running.
So Democracy offers us a choice of two identical policies, which is exactly why it is important that the pressure groups get to work and attempt to persuade politicians and the public (not necessarily in that order) that we want something different.
Defence Ministers will no doubt tell us that although we could not contempalate using these (illegal?) weapons (World Court decison), we live in uncertain times, (in contrast to the certain times?)
Ten of 14 judges condemned the use of nuclear weapons.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-18649464.html
In an opinion that was simultaneously forthright and ambiguous, the International Court of Justice--usually called the World Court--said in The Hague July 8 1996 that "the threat or use of nuclear weapons" was "generally" unlawful.
But the court also declared that it could not "definitively" conclude whether the threat or use of such weapons would be lawful or unlawful "in an extreme circumstance of self-defence, in which the very survival of a State would be at stake."
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