Trident – the UK’s Route to Nuclear Annihilation?
By Oliver Tickell
Global Research
February 27, 2016
Why is it so important to the US that Britain renew its nuclear weapons of mass destruction? The main purpose of Trident, writes Oliver Tickell, is to allow the UK to join American nuclear attacks, adding ‘legitimacy’ to them and so lowering the threshold for nuclear war – even if it guarantees our own destruction.
The most likely scenario in which Trident would actually be used is that Britain would give legitimacy to a US nuclear strike by participating in it – and so guarantee the UK’s retaliatory annihalation.
With thousands of marchers expected to converge on London on Saturdayto protest against government plans to renew the UK’s nuclear weapons of mass destruction, it is worth asking once again: what is Trident for?
Why does Britain feel any need at all to be in possession of nuclear weapons with many hundreds of times the destructive power of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs?
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