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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Report: U.K. Plans for New Submarines Require More Debate

Vanguard class SSBNA new independent report contends there is a pressing need for well informed U.K. debate over plans for modernizing that nation's nuclear arsenal.

The Nuclear Education Trust report, released on Tuesday, raises several factors related to any decision on whether to procure four new Successor-class ballistic missile submarines, including the cost of modernizing the country's nuclear deterrent and its potential for being involved in a catastrophic mishap or contributing to proliferation, the London Guardian reports.

"Britain's nuclear weapons should be subject to the same cost-effectiveness test and public scrutiny that all public expenditure has to be subjected to," states the report.

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