What are nuclear weapons? Cold War relics? Necessary evils? Indiscriminate bombs? The ultimate insurance policy? The answer of course depends on your personal outlook.

But here's another way of putting it: for the UK, nuclear weapons are over £100billion of taxpayers' money.

With that money we could:
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In March 2007, Des Browne was the hawkish Labour defence secretary who pushed the Trident replacement resolution through parliament, in the face of a huge rebellion from his own backbenchers - the biggest since Labour came to power in 1997. Recalling the debates at that time, Browne was adamant that...

If the government says there is no money for health, for education, for jobs, that we must cut back spending and embrace austerity, then why is it wasting money on nuclear weapons? Why is it spending over £2 billion a year on the existing system, and why is it planning...

Tucked away between the nuclear superpowers Russia and China - with nuclear-armed India and Pakistan hovering on the horizon - the countries of the Central Asian nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) have voluntarily eschewed nuclear weapons and entered a legal commitment to maintain that status. In such a potentially...

There can be little doubt that Britain's nuclear weapons will be a hot topic in the next general election campaign. With a decision on whether or not to replace Trident previously expected in this parliament, one of the coalition government's early decisions was to push this controversial choice back to...