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Friday, April 05, 2013

Cameron insists UK still needs nuclear missiles

Vanguard-class |Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday warned that Britain would be left defenceless against "highly unpredictable and aggressive" regimes if it wound down its Trident nuclear deterrent programme.

As he headed for a visit to western Scotland, where the submarines that carry the missiles are based, Cameron insisted: "We need our nuclear deterrent as much today as we did when a previous British Government embarked on it over six decades ago."

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he said that the recent actions of North Korea coupled with concerns over Iran's nuclear programme meant it would "foolish" to scrap the system.

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