Trident - Labour, Tories and Lib Dems

Tony Blair wants to replace Trident, and Gordon Brown, if he doesn't want to replace Trident, isn't saying boo.

David Cameron's in favour of Trident.

In fact, he wants a fourth submarine. He feels that "replacing Trident with a submarine-based system does not hinder our efforts at all to achieve multilateral nuclear disarmament", that Britain has a "right" to replace its nuclear weapons, that replacing our nuclear weapons is comptible with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that Tony Blair "can count on" the full support of the Tories.

The Liberal Democrats want to retain 100 warheads, have each Trident submarine carrying 24 warheads when on patrol, they want the current Trident nuclear system maintained and its operational life extended, and to put off a decision on any sucessor system.

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 was estimated to have a yield of 12.5 kilotons. Each Trident warhead has a yield of 100 kilotons. The Hiroshima bomb killed between 60 000 and 70 000 immediately. You do the math on the implications of the Lib Dem policy.

If you're against the prospect of nuclear proliferation, if you're against the threat of nuclear war, support political parties that are truly opposed to nuclear weapons, since there is no opposition to look to in Westminster!