Every minute of every day a British submarine armed with up to 48 nuclear warheads, each capable of destroying a city, is on patrol somewhere under the world's oceans. And that's how Tony Blair wants it to stay.The underlying aim of the British prime minister's decision to replace the country's ageing Trident-armed submarines, announced this week, is to maintain "continuous deterrent patrols" for the next 50 years. It will be possible to achieve this, he suggests in a white paper presented to Parliament on 4 December, while cutting the number of submarines from four to three and the number of "operationally available" warheads from 200 to 160.
The weapons are no longer targeted on Russian cities, and Blair accepts that they won't deter "terrorists". He claims they will make governments think twice about sponsoring terrorists, however, and will give the UK the "ultimate insurance" against future uncertainties.
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