Trident nukes vulnerable to cyber-attacks, underwater drones – ex-defense secretary…(Oh, Great…)
RT.com
29 Feb, 2016
Former Defense Secretary Lord Browne has warned that Britain’s Trident nuclear submarines will be vulnerable to cyber-attacks and underwater drones in the future, making them a source of ‘instability.’
Speaking to the BBC on Sunday, the Labour peer called on supporters of Trident to admit that the world has “grown out” of nuclear weapons systems due to technological advancements.
Browne, who served as defense secretary under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said technology is reaching a point where submarines will no longer be able to hide under the sea undetected.
He also addressed trade union concerns around scrapping Trident, saying that keeping jobs is the “worst possible reason” for building a nuclear military system.
His comments came one day after Britain’s largest anti-nuke demonstration in a generation, in which 60,000 people marched in London against renewing nuclear weapons.
Browne told the BBC Trident submarines hiding beneath the surface of the sea could soon become vulnerable to detection.
“I believe that we ourselves and many other countries are developing systems which will potentially destroy in a relatively short period of time that aspect of not being able to hide boats in the sea,” he said.
“They will not then be as invulnerable as they were. I’m not saying they would not have use, but we will not have the security that we believed that we had in submarines in years to come.”
“Perhaps like many other weapons systems, we have grown out of the nuclear age and our own technology has defeated it,” he added.
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