A lot of European countries seem to be considering getting nukes so there’s an opportunity there to share costs, and piss of the French.
every_little_counts on
Did not have the Liberal Democrats restarting Nuclear proliferation on my bingo card!
charliedacey on
Ive seena few surprising things from Ed Davey lately, are the Lib Dems attempting a move into a centre right space?
Belle_TainSummer on
How about we don’t buy them, and we don’t make them? How about we get out of pretending to be a world game entirely, and just concentrate on fixing our internal problems and watching our own doorstep.
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Emotional-Ebb8321 on
Britain’s legacy of empire is that there are many countries with long memories just looking for an easy win. The sad truth is that mad works. It’s not like the uk has strategic depth or land borders with allied countries.
Krabsandwich on
Really surprising that the Lib Dems are calling for a new Nuclear Missile Program I always thought they were more on the disarmament side of the argument. I wonder how their voters will feel about this latest idea.
It would not be technically difficult to build a new missile body just eye wateringly expensive. We could collaborate with the French on a new missile system, their current missiles do fit in a Vanguard Sub Launch Tubes but that is about all.
I do hope they will all now be backing increased defence spending fully to help pay for this redesign and build.
LunarLoom21 on
At this stage it would be foolish for any nation that has plans for a future not to get its own nukes.
veerKg_CSS_Geologist on
>> but it depends on the US to supply and maintain the Trident missiles that would deliver them
Well this is a completely stupid situation. Who’s bright idea was this? The whole point of the UK developing its own nuclear arsenal way back when was so it would be independent of the US (which refused to share its nuclear secrets with the UK if anyone cares to remember). Now given the way procurement works some American components in weapons systems are acceptable. But only if the UK has an adequate number of spares on hand, complete ownership and control of those components, the technical knowledge of how to install them and the inability of the US or any other country to remotely access/control them. Anything else is unacceptable.
soggyarsonist on
The government is probably already planning for this but it takes more than a year or so to deliver and isn’t something that is publicly advertised.
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A lot of European countries seem to be considering getting nukes so there’s an opportunity there to share costs, and piss of the French.
Did not have the Liberal Democrats restarting Nuclear proliferation on my bingo card!
Ive seena few surprising things from Ed Davey lately, are the Lib Dems attempting a move into a centre right space?
How about we don’t buy them, and we don’t make them? How about we get out of pretending to be a world game entirely, and just concentrate on fixing our internal problems and watching our own doorstep.
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Britain’s legacy of empire is that there are many countries with long memories just looking for an easy win. The sad truth is that mad works. It’s not like the uk has strategic depth or land borders with allied countries.
Really surprising that the Lib Dems are calling for a new Nuclear Missile Program I always thought they were more on the disarmament side of the argument. I wonder how their voters will feel about this latest idea.
It would not be technically difficult to build a new missile body just eye wateringly expensive. We could collaborate with the French on a new missile system, their current missiles do fit in a Vanguard Sub Launch Tubes but that is about all.
I do hope they will all now be backing increased defence spending fully to help pay for this redesign and build.
At this stage it would be foolish for any nation that has plans for a future not to get its own nukes.
>> but it depends on the US to supply and maintain the Trident missiles that would deliver them
Well this is a completely stupid situation. Who’s bright idea was this? The whole point of the UK developing its own nuclear arsenal way back when was so it would be independent of the US (which refused to share its nuclear secrets with the UK if anyone cares to remember). Now given the way procurement works some American components in weapons systems are acceptable. But only if the UK has an adequate number of spares on hand, complete ownership and control of those components, the technical knowledge of how to install them and the inability of the US or any other country to remotely access/control them. Anything else is unacceptable.
The government is probably already planning for this but it takes more than a year or so to deliver and isn’t something that is publicly advertised.