tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310865426489118.post1159590255782414509..comments2020-06-10T13:21:08.840+00:00Comments on Peter Irate: Trident: A fork in the road.piratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13000800662623166317noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4489310865426489118.post-71303156078490220342016-04-28T12:50:07.781+00:002016-04-28T12:50:07.781+00:00This makes a lot of sense.
I'm not against nu...This makes a lot of sense.<br /><br />I'm not against nuclear weapons for the same reason as you - if you're going to kill someone it doesn't really matter too much how you do it.<br /><br />Having said that, I can't see we'd ever use a nuclear weapon. The sort of people we're fighting these days don't really present convenient targets and surround themselves with civilians. It'd be political suicide for any prime minister who authorised their use. The one opportunity we had to use them safely would have been to fire them into some Afghan caves to see whether we could have sealed Bin Laden in a glass ball and we didn't do that. <br /><br />So Trident's a great deal of money for something we'd probably never use. I'd favour pretending we'd renewed it while not actually bothering, on the basis I don't think anybody would call our bluff. But on the basis that's probably not going to happen, dual-use boats would seem to be a reasonable approach to the issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com