Is it Time for Britain's Nuclear Circumcision?
Willard Foxton
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Posted 24.07.2012
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UK Politics
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This is a big deal - we are not only putting a truly vast sum of money at stake - the defence contractors estimate £25 billion, so we can assume at least three times that, 10 years late - we are also binding ourselves into a strategic commitment to maintaining not just a nuclear arsenal, but to a uniquely cold-war era one, based around submarine launched ballistic missiles.




