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Wednesday, 21 June 2006

Britannia May Retain Her Trident

Gordon Brown, Tony Blair's heir apparent, is expected to declare that he supports Trident being updated or replaced when its service life runs out in 2024.

Meanwhile, CND hit the macro on their computer to denounce the news saying that,

At this point, when we face no nuclear threat, to decide on a new Trident replacement is beginning a new nuclear arms race.*
This call for unilateral disarmament is, of course, very different from CND's position during the Cold War when they demanded that Britain unilaterally disarm because we did face a nuclear threat.

*No threat aside from Communist China, North Korea, Iran, an unstable Russia, rogue nukes going walkies from India and Pakistan and any clandestine terrorist programme that has slipped our notice, that is.

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