EARLIER THIS YEAR, MPs at Westminster voted to replace the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system when it reaches the end of its ‘useful life’ in fifteen or twenty years’ time. The decision isn’t just a shameful waste of billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money; it sends out a deadly signal to the rest of the world: “We don’t care about nuclear proliferation, so neither should you,” and thus massively increases the chances of a nuclear confrontation in the future.
The government published a White Paper setting out its proposals in December 2006, and in March this year agreed to replace the nuclear ...
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