Cabinet documents from 1981 released under the 30-year rule reveal that two-thirds of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet were opposed to purchasing the Trident nuclear weapons system from the ISA - yet Thatcher went ahead and bought the system anyway without any proper debate.
Thirty years later, the Coalition Cabinet is facing a similar decision: whether to buy a ruinously expensive replacement for Trident, which will have virtually no military value, at a time of deep economic recession. How many of David Cameron's Cabinet ministers are questioning the plans to replace Trident?
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