Trident

By Rebecca Johnson on opendemocracy.net. With opposition to Trident growing, the British government has refused to join this week’s UN multilateral nuclear disarmament talks on practical measures to build global security without nuclear weapons. As hundreds of thousands gather to…

Thank you Mathew Norman from The Independent for the perfect allegory of this ridiculous expensive and unaffordable, immoral and useless piece of nuclear stupidity. It has nothing to do with defence (it cannot do anything about the UK’s present enemies)…

Jeremy Corbyn opposes nuclear weapons but he could not have the Labour Party conference debate the issue. Now his position has been given a new impetus by the Scottish Labour Party as they stated their opposition to the renewal of…

Engineering failures on Trident submarine place crew at risk and raise doubts over whether missiles could actually be launched, says whistleblower This article comes from the Nuclear Information Service website. A Royal Navy whistleblower has exposed a shocking catalogue of…

In this Press Release from the UK’s Scottish Nationalist Party Michael Portillo (former Conservative Defence Secretary) and Bill Kidd (Member of the Scottish Parliament) respond to UK Prime Minister’s statements in Scotland on nuclear deterrence. David Cameron was facing derision…