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Monday, July 22, 2013

Trident missiles are useless (unless we're prepared to point them at Brussels)

Trident II (D5) UGM-133AIt would do us no end of good to get rid of our Trident nuclear missiles. It is time we stopped pretending we were a great power.

I should say here that I was a keen supporter of our nuclear deterrent in the days when the communist Soviet Union menaced Western Europe with its enormous army.

That is exactly why I don’t support it now. We won that war, which was a colossal game of bluff. Modern Russia poses no military threat to us, and isn’t even very interested in us. Nor is China, which has plenty to occupy her in Asia.

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